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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: Unclassified Live: This Is The Kit, Modern Nature and Moor Mother

Unclassified Live: This Is The Kit, Modern Nature and Moor Mother

BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified, Unclassified Live: This Is The Kit, Modern Nature and Moor Mother

Join Elizabeth Alker and the BBC Concert Orchestra for a night of genre-defying new music

Join Elizabeth Alker and the BBC Concert Orchestra for a night of genre-defying new music featuring guest artists This Is The Kit, Modern Nature and Moor Mother.

Join Elizabeth Alker at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s South Bank for an evening of genre-defying musical collaboration featuring new commissions and arrangements performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames.

As Moor Mother, the poet-musician Camae Ayewa offers spellbinding lyrical forays into questions of freedom and justice. The Philadelphian’s latest album The Great Bailout is unflinching in its exploration of the continuing presence of colonial history: “Tax payers of erasure, of relapse, of amnesia, paying the crimes off… Did you pay off the trauma?” she intones on the track, Guilty, here performed with special guest vocalist Elaine Mitchener. For Unclassified Live, Ayewa's palette of electronic and ambient colours is augmented through new arrangements created for the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Modern Nature’s Jack Cooper is a musician of wide-ranging talent, at home in art rock settings or alongside experimental improvisers. His Triptych for Orchestra - here receiving its premiere performance - sees him turn his craft to the creation of a piece of longer-form symphonic music for large instrumental forces.

Bringing the concert home is Kate Stables, a banjo and guitar-strumming singer-songwriter whose playful brand of art pop shot-through with heartfelt lyricism finds its home in the project she calls This Is The Kit. Alongside long time collaborators Rozi Plain and Jamie Whitby-Coles, Stables here explores tracks from the project’s back catalogue in specially commissioned arrangements that add an orchestral depth to serve the words. “The story is the telling… Potential in the waiting… Movement is deciding… Forward is the doing…” 

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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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