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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: Experimental & New

Elizabeth Alker with music by a new generation of composers who defy classification.

Elizabeth Alker with music by an exciting new generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls.

Unclassified: Ambience that gleams and glitters

Ambience that gleams and glitters

BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified, Ambience that gleams and glitters

Elizabeth Alker shares sounds inspired by shifting daylight and celestial ice.

Elizabeth Alker shares music that defies classification, from sounds inspired by shifting daylight and celestial ice to hopeful post-rock chamber music and reflective hip-hop.

Join Elizabeth Alker for another unclassifiable journey in sound. There’ll be luminous minimalism inspired by shifting daylight from South Korean composer Park Jiha, as well as glittering ambience from LA sound artist Steve Roden based around a Chinese Christmas carol about stars of ice. Plus post-rock protest music full of hope from Canadian chamber ensemble Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and reflective hip-hop from London’s Lex Amor.

This programme was first broadcast in January 2022.

Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

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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