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Essential Classics
Tuesday with Ian Skelly - West Side Story, Alpesh Chauhan, Stravinsky's Tango for piano
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus guest, the conductor Alpesh Chauhan. Show more
Donald Macleod looks at the obstacles thrown into Haydn’s path throughout his career as he shuffled between one job and the next until his employment with the Esterhazys began. Show more
Sounds of France: in the first of four concerts, Ensemble Nevermind perform chamber music from the French Baroque by Marais, Couperin and Jacquet de la Guerre. Show more
Thomas Sondergard conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Adagio from Mahler's unfinished Symphony No 10, and his Ruckert Lieder with mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news, with live music from New French-Cuban jazz outfit, Que Vola? - plus we hear from conductor Jane Glover. Show more
A specially curated sequence of non-stop music, including rhythmic Handel, sublime Mozart, romantic Schubert, quirky Prokofiev and classic Macca. Show more
London Philharmonic Orchestra performs Arnold Bax's Tintagel, conducted by Osmo Vanska. Show more
Adman Robert Heath, VR creator May Abdalla, gaming expert Dashana Jayemanne and psychologist Claudia Hammond join Shahidha Bari at the Free Thinking Festival. Show more
Lisa Mullen asks whether some contributions to literature are less equal than others as she reads newly discovered letters showing the influence of George Orwell's wife Eileen. Show more
Rise and shine! Max Reinhardt presents tracks that welcome in a new day with music that imitates the feeling of the sun rising over a hill and a swan sitting on dewy grass. Show more
Camerata Variabile Basel at the 2018 Schaffhausen Bach Festival in Switzerland. With Jonathan Swain. Show more