Petroc Trelawny presents breakfast and, as part of New Year, New Music, Radio 3 presenters introduce some of the latest pieces of music they love.
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Essential Classics
Wednesday with Suzy Klein - Jennifer Pike, Shostakovich's Waltz from Dance of the Dolls, New Year, New Music: Edmund Finnis
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music. Suzy Klein's guest is violinist Jennifer Pike. Show more
Donald Macleod delves into the impact of Bach upon Felix Mendelssohn. Show more
Radio 3 New Generation Artist trumpeter Simon Hofele and pianist Magdalena Mullerperth in the second of four recitals from the recently re-opened Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Show more
Afternoon Concert
Celebrating the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Strauss, Berg and Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 47, his 'Soviet artist's creative response to justified criticism'. Show more
From the Chapel of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Show more
Aleksey Semenenko, accompanied by Inna Firsova, plays Beethoven's Romance No 2 in F and Violin Sonata No 8 in G at the Britten Studio in Aldeburgh. Show more
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This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin are joined by the Academy of Ancient Music in a performance of parts 1-3 of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Recorded at St Luke's Chelsea. Show more
Free Thinking
Born in 1819: Ruskin, Clough and Bazalgette.
44 minutes
on BBC Radio 3Available for over a year
Laurence Scott examines Ruskin, Bazalgette and Arthur Hugh Clough, all members of the class of 1819 celebrating their bicentenary with Queen Victoria. Show more
Frances Leviston celebrates perhaps Keats's Ode to Autumn, exploring both its depiction of the bounty of autumn and its forebodings of death. Show more
Eli Kezler’s small, specific, bacterial percussion, sampling experiments from the 1980s by Michele Mercure, and music from a road trip between Paris and Calcutta. Show more
Recital from Münstersaal, Basel, including music by Frescobaldi, Strozzi and Scarlatti. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
