Inside Music

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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: Storytelling, beauty and melancholy in music with composer Isobel Waller-Bridge

Storytelling, beauty and melancholy in music with composer Isobel Waller-Bridge

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Storytelling, beauty and melancholy in music with composer Isobel Waller-Bridge

Hear a leading musician open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.

Isobel Waller-Bridge chooses a selection of classical music from her point of view as a composer - revealing familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light.

TV and film composer Isobel Waller-Bridge leads us through an intriguing selection of pieces that get her thinking about the power music has to create vivid images and to tell stories.

She finds herself dancing with her eyes closed to Erik Satie before realising how stringed instruments can in their own way mimic the emotional impact of voices. She also discovers how a Finnish landscape full of migrating swans can be captured perfectly in music, and plays a song from 1969 that breaks many of the rules of pop to deliver its beautiful, melancholy message.
 
A series in which each week a musician explores 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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Storytelling, beauty and melancholy in music with composer Isobel Waller-Bridge

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