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: Soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn with stories beneath the music

Soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn with stories beneath the music

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn with stories beneath the music

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

Soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn opens up a colourful selection of music from the inside, from the gentle pathos of a Beethoven piano sonata to the pithy humour of a Bernstein quartet.

Opera singer and song recitalist Elizabeth Llewellyn discovers a wide range of voices, from the perfection of Petula Clark’s folk style in the soundtrack to Finian’s Rainbow, to the never ending flexibility of Wynton Marsalis on the trumpet, and the unexpected beauty of a choir that breathes as one… 

Elizabeth also explains why the lute-like guitar accompaniment and ground bass of a Joan Armatrading song makes it sound like baroque music, and plays a piece by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with rhythmic twists and turns that keep her gripped. 

Plus, a track Elizabeth danced to as a child that now has new meaning for her. 

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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