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: Pianist and composer Bill Laurance with inspiring improvisation and amazing arrangements

Pianist and composer Bill Laurance with inspiring improvisation and amazing arrangements

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Pianist and composer Bill Laurance with inspiring improvisation and amazing arrangements

Hear Bill Laurance open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.

Bill Laurance reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, including a track that inspired him to learn how to improvise and the magical sound of a humming choir.

Bill Laurance is a pianist, composer and original member of the fusion band Snarky Puppy. His choices in this programme draw on his classical and jazz roots, including a Duke Ellington arrangement that Bill believes is an excellent blend of those two genres.

Bill shares a song whose harmony prevents it from sounding too sweet, a piece by Ravel that elegantly captures the fluidity of water, and a choir who are rhythmically free yet perfectly together. 

Plus, he goes back to his university days to revisit his experiences conducting Ernest Moeran’s Sinfonietta…
 
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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