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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

Live music and interviews from the world's finest classical musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians.

Radio 3's drivetime show brings you incredible live music and interviews from the world's finest classical, jazz, folk and world musicians. If it's happening in the world of music, you'll hear it first on In Tune.

In Tune: Paul McCreesh, Simon Blendis and Saoko Blendis

Paul McCreesh, Simon Blendis and Saoko Blendis

BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, Paul McCreesh, Simon Blendis and Saoko Blendis

Conductor Paul McCreesh, violinist Simon Blendis and pianist Saoko Blendis join Sean.

Sean Rafferty is joined by conductor Paul McCreesh, founder of the Gabrieli Consort & Players, and by violinist Simon Blendis and pianist Saoko Blendis, who perform live.

Ahead of the Gabrieli Consort & Players' performance of Elgar's masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius, conductor Paul McCreesh joins Sean Rafferty.

And violinist Simon Blendis and pianist Saoko Blendis both join Sean in the studio and perform live, ahead of their appearance at the Ryedale Festival.

Plus: Helen Grime, in episode #3 of 'Composing the Proms', a series of short features with the composers who were commissioned to write new pieces for the BBC Proms 2023, in which they talk about the music that inspired them.

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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