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Essential Classics
Essential Classics with Ian Skelly: Chabrier's L'Etoile Overture, First Proms in the Park, Frank Skinner
3 hours
on BBC Radio 3
Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music presented Ian Skelly. Our guest this week is broadcaster, writer and comedian Frank Skinner. Show more
Donald Macleod explores the sound of CPE Bach's music, written in the Empfindsamer Stil. Show more
Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Vilabertran Schubertiade 2018: Mahler and Mendelssohn
57 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Star mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly sings Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and the Cosmos Quartet plays Mendelssohn's String Quartet No 2 in A, Op 13. Sarah Walker presents. Show more
Games composer and designer Jessica Curry curates a concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra, with music from Final Fantasy X, World of Warcraft and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture. Show more
Live from the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, marking the retirement of Stephen Cleobury as director of music. Show more
Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata in A is played in a setting for cello by current New Generation Artist Anastasia Kobekina with pianist Jean-Selim Abdelmoula. Show more
Sean Rafferty presents a lively mix of music and arts news, including a live music by Symphonic Brass of London who join us in the studio. Show more
And what voices! Cecilia Bartoli with Vivaldi's desperate aria Gelido in ogni vena, the Songbird of Wassoulou, Oumou Sangaré, and the lustrous ensemble work of Armonico Consort. Show more
Radio 3 in Concert
A Tribute to Oliver Knussen - Britten Oboe Quartet
2 hours, 28 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Oboist Nicholas Daniel returns to Aldeburgh Festival with a programme of chamber works by Knussen, Britten and Debussy as well as a world premiere by Joanna Lee. Show more
Rana Mitter considers Western fears of Russia past and present with Mark B Smith, author of The Russia Anxiety, and how Russia is viewed in former Soviet states and in east Asia. Show more
In her third essay, writer Madeleine Bunting recalls how she regained her ability to pay deep attention by cutting herself off from the sensory overload offered by digital media. Show more
Late Junction
Vintage highlife, Brazilian musical psychogeography and Sufjan Stevens
1 hour, 30 minutes
on BBC Radio 3
Max Reinhardt presents some vintage Ghanaian highlife from Ebo Taylor and others, plus Brazilian musical psychogeography and a new track by Sufjan Stevens. Show more
A programme of Richard Strauss and Beethoven with the Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Kirill Petrenko. Jonathan Swain presents. Show more
