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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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Get to know a selection of music from the inside with a leading musician.

Inside Music: Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson with a sublime voyage to the moon (and back)

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson with a sublime voyage to the moon (and back)

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson with a sublime voyage to the moon (and back)

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson opens up a colourful selection of music from the inside.

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, including a couple of his own recordings and a good dash of Bach.

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson takes us on a journey featuring earthly delights from Jean Sibelius, Joseph Haydn and Béla Bartók, and otherworldly musical beauty from Leos Janacek, Thomas Adès and Edmund Finnis. 

To start, Víkingur introduces a selection of tracks by the composer he refers to as ‘the Alpha and Omega of music’, JS Bach: choral intimacy and splendour from conductor John Eliot Gardiner, tragic beauty from pianist Edwin Fischer and a quirky take by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Plus Víkingur discusses how lighting in a recording studio led to just the right performance of his transcription of Widerstehe doch der Sünde from Bach’s Cantata BWV54.

A 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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