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Essential Classics
Wednesday with Ian Skelly - Alpesh Chauhan, Dowland's Lachrimae pavan, Stockhausen's Gruppen
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus guest, the conductor Alpesh Chauhan. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the importance of religion to Haydn, how it influenced his career and the choices he made throughout his life. Show more
Sounds of France: in the second of this week's concerts, soprano Carolyn Sampson and pianist Joseph Middleton perform Romantic French songs by Debussy, Faure, Hahn and more. Show more
Live from Media City in Salford, John Wilson conducts a concert of twentieth-century English music. Show more
An archive recording from the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban (first broadcast 29 March 1995). Show more
New Generation Artists
Gershwin and Barber from Simon Hofele and James Newby
31 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
James Newby sings songs by Barber at Wigmore Hall and star trumpeter Simon Hofele plays An American in Paris. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news, with live music from Sansara, pianist Vikingur Olafsson, and we speak to author Christopher Somerville. Show more
In Tune's specially curated mixtape featuring dance music by Steve Martland, Judith Weir's Love Bade Me Welcome and a Mozart piano concerto made famous by the film, Elvira Madigan. Show more
Live from the Barbican Hall, Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's searing Symphony No 11. Plus the Piano Concerto No 2 with Alexei Volodin. Show more
Tracy Borman, Paul Pickering, Penny Spikins and Elsa Richardson debate our knowledge of emotion in past generations with Rana Mitter and an audience at the Free Thinking Festival. Show more
You oppose art being banned. But would a movie that calls for you to be killed change your view of censorship? Iain Robert Smith opens the BBFC archives on the Rushdie affair. Show more
Max Reinhardt puts a spotlight on Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Collective. Menace and beauty combine in Bogdan Raczynski’s Rave ‘Till You Cry, and a jazz trio record direct to vinyl. Show more
Early violin and guitar sonatas. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more
