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Essential Classics
Thursday with Suzy Klein - Paul Whitehouse, Colour Therapy, The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Suzy Klein with the best in classical music, plus this week's guest, actor and comedian Paul Whitehouse. Show more
Donald Macleod dips into Gounod's comic opera, La Colombe, and his biggest theatrical hit, Romeo et Juliette, and encounters the redoubtable Mrs Georgina Weldon. Show more
Tom McKinney with the third of four programmes in the Liverpool Philharmonic Chamber Series including pianist Stephen Hough and baritone Roderick Williams. Show more
Kate Molleson presents a Bavarian State Opera production of Franz Schreker's psychological tragedy Die Gezeichneten, a heady mix of sex, violence and art in 16th-century Genoa. Show more
Sean Rafferty is joined by pianist Beatrice Rana fresh from her performance at last night's Classical Brit Awards, plus composer John Powell chats to Sean about his new CD Hubris. Show more
In Tune's specially curated playlist: Music for Football Fans, as the 2018 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Russia. Music includes Puccini, Faure and Shostakovich. Show more
Ian Skelly presents the Britten Sinfonia from London's Barbican. Thomas Ades and the Orchestra continue their three-year-long Beethoven symphony cycle with No 6, the 'Pastoral'. Show more
Historian Fern Riddell and composer Debbie Wiseman on why the piano is essentially erotic while psychologist Frank Tallis and Tiffany Watt Smith explore obsessive love. Show more
Martin Gayford is used to the 'quirks' of the avant-garde art world. Still, he is curious to be invited to Iceland to view Roni Horn's collection of samples - the Library of Water.
Max features a 30-minute mixtape based around the love song from American songstress Circuit des Yeux. Plus acapella vocals and an exercise in active listening. Show more
John Shea presents a concert of Lutoslawski and Kodaly compositions given by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zsolt Hamar. Also includes music by Bartok and Weill. Show more