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Essential Classics
Friday with Rob Cowan - Vivaldi's Autumn (from the Four Seasons), Derren Brown, Rossetti's Wombats
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Rob Cowan presents the best in classical music, including potential companion pieces for one of the concerti from Vivaldi's Seasons. Show more
Donald Macleod delves into Antonio Vivaldi's late works for the stage, where he started to write showcase arias full of vocal pyrotechnics to bedazzle the listener. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
St Magnus Festival 2017
Episode 4: St Magnus International Festival: Joseph Shiner and Ashley Fripp
58 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Joseph Shiner (clarinet) and Ashley Fripp (piano) perform Schumann, Debussy and Poulenc in the town hall at Stromness as part of the St Magnus Festival. Show more
Tom Redmond concludes his BBC Philharmonic series with a concert at MediaCityUK in Salford, with Smetana's tone-poem 'Ma vlast', Sibelius's First Symphony and Elgar's Falstaff. Show more
Sean Rafferty launches Why Music? The Key to Memory live from London's Wellcome Collection. Guests include Dame Evelyn Glennie. Show more
What is music without our memories? Philip Ball talks to neuroscientists about how we first become our musical selves and asks if music can teach us about our minds. Show more
Live from Maida Vale Studios, the Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon invite you to enter the Musical Memory Palace to explore music by Debussy, Boulez, Ives and Mozart. Show more
Ian McMillan presents a 'memorisable' cabaret of the word - with Jenny Uglow on Edward Lear, the actor Julian Glover and improvisers Rachel Parris and Amy Cooke-Hodgson. Show more
Neuropsychologist Catherine Loveday explores what life is like when you can only live completely in the present. Show more
Kathryn Tickell presents performances by British-Iraqi singer Alya Al-Sultani, Senegalese kora player Seckou Keita and UK folk singer Sam Lee from Wellcome Collection in London. Show more
Catriona Young presents a performance of Mahler's second symphony from the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic and conductor Mark Wigglesworth. Show more