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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

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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: Realms of drone

Realms of drone

BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified, Realms of drone

Elizabeth Alker shares drone music from ambient, electronic and orchestral realms.

A one-hour special of soothing textures and haunting drone music from ambient, electronic and orchestral realms.

Elizabeth Alker takes us on a journey through sustained notes and uninterrupted tones in a homage to some of our favourite drones from ambient, electronic and orchestral realms. Amongst the selections are the haunting music of Japanese sound sculptor and 'signal alchemist' Sawako, the sombre viola dissonance of John Cale’s Velvet Underground, as well as a performance from Manchester Collective of the second movement of Edmund Finnis’ first string quartet. Plus there’s an excerpt from a two-hour drone ritual by Sweden’s Kali Malone in the company of Stephen O’Malley on electric guitar and Lucy Railton on cello; as well as dense textures courtesy of M-G Dysfunction from the Leeds label Don’t Drone Alone.

Produced by Alexa Kruger 
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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