Tom McKinney presents the classical breakfast show, with listener requests. Including folk music and folk influenced classical music for Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend. Show more
Record Review
Folk Connections - Building a Library: Jerome Kern: Show Boat
3 hours, 12 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Jerome Kern: Show Boat; Verity Sharp and Andrew discuss recent recordings of mainly British folk music; Disc of the Week. Show more
Presented by Tom Service. Including a portrait of Emmanuel Chabrier and, for Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, a discussion about appropriating folk tunes in classical music. Show more
Piper Kathryn Tickell chooses classical pieces inspired by folk music. Including Soler, Barber, Ives, Halvorsen, Grainger, Juan de Araujo, Cowell, Nordgren and Skempton. Show more
Verity Sharp chairs a discussion about the history, origins and future of folk song collecting in the UK. With performances from Emily Portman, Fay Hield and Thomas McCarthy. Show more
Alyn Shipton's selection of listeners' requests includes music by Ben Pollack and his Orchestra from 1929, featuring a young Jack Teagarden. Show more
A performance given by saxophonist Rachael Cohen and her quartet on stage at the 2015 Glasgow Jazz Festival. Plus Sebastian Scotney exploring connections between jazz and sport. Show more
Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a performance of Puccini's last masterpiece Turandot. With Nina Stemme, Anita Hartig, Marco Berti and Alexander Tsymbalyuk. Show more
Musician Jim Moray reveals how the meeting of composer Percy Grainger and farm bailiff Joseph Taylor changed the course of traditional folk music. Show more
Ivan Hewett presents music from a recent concert given by the Ulster Orchestra. Plus composer Sally Beamish with Scottish fiddle player Chris Stout and harpist Catriona McKay. Show more
Geoffrey Smith surveys the deep roots shared between jazz and folk music, introducing songs from Lead Belly, Jan Garbarek and Dizzy Gillespie among others. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a programme of Schubert, Shostakovich, Hartmann and Beethoven performed in Poland by the Korean Chamber Orchestra. Show more
