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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

Radio 3

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: Extended mixes and lullabies

Extended mixes and lullabies

BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified, Extended mixes and lullabies

Elizabeth Alker plays a selection of ambient music including new lullabies for our times.

Elizabeth Alker plays a selection of ambient and experimental tracks including new takes on the lullaby.

Take two raw-edged tracks from a cult 1990s American band; extend and repeat them until all their incantatory beauty and magic are allowed to unfurl; then bring in the legendary Will Oldham and guitarist Tyler Trotter to finish the job: that’s exactly what Louisville guitarist and folklorist Nathan Salsburg has done with the songs of Lungfish, new versions which he used to play to his baby daughter Talya by way of a lullaby.

Dublin-based singer-guitarist Kevin Fowley, meanwhile, offers up a luxurious slowly-unfolding setting of a medieval French lullaby, Á la Claire Fontaine, the simple melody surrounded by smoothed pillows of guitar. And Roxanne de Bastion's album Songs From The Piano Player Of Budapest is a homage to her grandfather, Stephen, a composer-musician and survivor of the horrors of the holocaust in Hungary. His piece “Sleep, Sleep Little Boy” is here reimagined by his granddaughter in collaboration with Ed Harcourt.

Produced by Geoff Bird
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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