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Essential Classics
Monday with Ian Skelly - Ravel's Alborada del gracioso, Ruth Padel, Superman vs the KKK
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Ian Skelly.
With guest, poet, novelist and author Ruth Padel. Show more
Donald Macleod surveys a series of Croatian firsts by Dora Pejacevic. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Wigmore Monday Lunchtimes: Karina Gauvin and Maciej Pikulski
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin, live in concert from Wigmore Hall, London, performing songs by Hahn, Debussy, Poulenc and Bizet. Show more
Music by Brumel, Poulenc, Judit Varga, Mozart and Dohnanyi. Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers in Brumel’s spectacular Earthquake Mass and Poulenc’s Figure humaine. Show more
Tom Service is joined by vocal ensemble Fieri Consort and pianist Louis Schwizgebel, who perform live in the studio. Plus violinist Richard Tognetti. Show more
Tonight's playlist includes Beethoven's mischievous symphonic homage to the invention of the metronome, and a motoric Dance of the Five Couples from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
Cristina Ortiz plays piano music by Chopin and Bowen
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Cristina Ortiz plays piano music by Chopin and Bowen at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Show more
Sarah Connolly, an autumn playlist by Scarlett Thomas, and Hidden Voices: the Aldridge sisters Show more
Poet Helen Mort reads Hughes's poems about creatures - The Thought Fox, Pike and his collection Crow, and considers them in relation to her own phobia of animals. Show more
Soweto Kinch presents Ashley Henry at the 2018 Manchester Jazz Festival. Show more
Trio con Brio Copenhagen in a programme of Haydn, Smetana and Schubert. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
