The Early Music Show

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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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Music: Classical: Early Music

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: The Fitzwilliam Collection

The Fitzwilliam Collection

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, The Fitzwilliam Collection

Sophie Yates is at the Fitzwilliam Museum exploring a priceless collection of manuscripts.

Harpsichordist Sophie Yates explores the legacy of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam, whose collection of manuscripts is one of the most important archives in Britain.

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is home to a priceless collection of manuscripts bequeathed to the university by the extraordinary 18th-century polymath, the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam. 

Harpsichordist Sophie Yates visits the museum to explore the life and legacy of Fitzwilliam, whose now-famous Virginal Book is considered to be the primary source for late Elizabethan and early Jacobean keyboard music.

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