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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 Stephen Hough with a playlist of fireworks and finesse

Pianist Stephen Hough with a playlist of fireworks and finesse

BBC Radio 3 - Inside Music, Pianist Stephen Hough with a playlist of fireworks and finesse

Hear pianist Stephen Hough open up a colourful selection of music from the inside.

Pianist Stephen Hough reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, including dances from Richard Strauss and Irving Berlin and a dazzling Blue Danube from 1928.

Pianist Stephen Hough introduces some of the piano music and the pianists who have been a source of inspiration to him over the years. Artur Schnabel plays Beethoven, Alfred Cortot performs Chopin and Josef Lhévinne offers what Stephen calls “one of the greatest tracks of piano music ever recorded”, with a remarkable 1928 recording of Josef Strauss II’s Blue Danube Waltz.

Stephen also selects a movement from Michael Tippett’s Piano Concerto, and a couple of his own recordings of music by Cécile Chaminade and John Corigliano. There’s choral music from Thomas Tallis, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar, as well as fiery intensity from the cellist Daniil Shafran and a turbocharged excerpt from Richard Strauss’s opera Salome. 

Plus, a celebration of the joint creative talents of Shirley Bassey and Nelson Riddle in the music of Irving Berlin.

A series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside.

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Photo credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke

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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