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Essential Classics
Thursday with Ian Skelly - Bridge on the River Kwai, Alpesh Chauhan, Essential Classics Playlist
3 hours on BBC Radio 3
Ian Skelly with the best in classical music, plus guest, the conductor Alpesh Chauhan. Show more
Donald Macleod considers the effect war and turmoil had on Haydn’s life and career, and how these influences shaped some of his compositions. Show more
Sounds of France: in the third of this week's concerts, flautist Adam Walker and pianist Alasdair Beatson play Widor, Milhaud, Messiaen and Boulez. Show more
Ivo Lipanovic conducts Nikola Subic Zrinski, an opera written in 1876 by Ivan Zajc, who overhauled Zagreb's musical life during his 30-year reign as director of the city's opera. Show more
Katie Derham presents a lively mix of music, conversation and arts news with live by Leonard Elschenbroich and early music group Red Priest. We also speak to conductor Mark Elder Show more
Adventure above and beyond other mixtapes with this sequence of music for adventure, from Saint-Saens's exotic bacchanal to the Temple of Doom via Mahler's heartbroken wanderer. Show more
Alexander Vedernikov and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two celebrated works in the key of C; Rachmaninov's C minor Piano Concerto and Schubert's 'Great' C major Symphony. Show more
A graphic novelist, a writer, a film-maker who stopped speaking, and a writer and trustee of the North East Dads and Lads project debate what you can and can't say in life and art. Show more
Michael Talbot from the University of Greenwich tells stories of Turkish raiders, sea patrols and midwater borders in an Essay recorded at the Free Thinking Festival. Show more
Max Reinhardt gets familiar with songs that reflect on friendship and family, from Aretha Franklin and Ornette Coleman. Show more
Music by Albert Schnelzer, Brahms and Ravel performed by Trio Scandinavia. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more