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Essential Classics
Wednesday with Rob Cowan - Johann Strauss II's Blue Danube, Patricia Routledge, Macon
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Rob Cowan presents potential companion pieces for Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz, and Dame Patricia Routledge lists her influences and inspirations. Show more
Donald Macleod explains how Bellini turned his failed opera Zaira into success by recycling material in his reworking of the Romeo and Juliet story: I Capuleti e I Montecchi. Show more
Belfast International Arts Festival 2017 - The Four Seasons: Featuring soprano Fatma Said and pianist Joseph Middleton. Presented by John Toal. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents a concert the BBC Singers gave last month in memory of John Tavener at St Peter's Eaton Square, London. Show more
Choral Evensong from Westminster Abbey to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Blessed Oscar Romero. Show more
Annelien Van Wauwe plays a Fantasy by Niels Gade, and former NGA Alec Frank-Gemmill plays a grand duo by the piano virtuoso Adolf von Henselt. Show more
Katie Derham with a lively mix of chat, arts news and live performance. Her guests include Improviso, Jessica Duchen and Benjamin Appl. Show more
A specially curated mixtape including virtuosic playing from Wynton Marsalis plus music by Schubert, Purcell, and the climax of Stravinsky's The Firebird. Show more
Anna Stephany sings Mahler, Grieg and Brahms at the Oxford Lieder Festival, with pianist Sholto Kynoch, following recent acclaim in the Royal Opera's Der Rosenkavalier. Show more
Yanis Varoufakis talks economics and Marxist analysis, Richard Bean and Clive Coleman promote their play starring Rory Kinnear as a young Marx, and Tara Bergin talks Eleanor Marx. Show more
Five slow radio soundscapes, featuring themes from the monastic life of Downside, Belmont and Pluscarden Abbeys. The subject for this episode is work. Show more
Max Reinhardt presents Richard Thompson's new album Acoustic Rarities, a previously lost tape from Somalia by Sharaf Band and Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition. Show more
Jonathan Swain presents performances from the Cello Category Finals of the 2016 George Enescu International Festival and Competition in Bucharest. Show more
