Elizabeth Alker with her Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.
Record Review
Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor in Building a Library with Ben Gernon and Andrew McGregor
2 hours, 47 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2 in Building a Library with Ben Gernon and Andrew McGregor; plus a round up of new choral releases with John Rutter. Show more
Horn player Felix Klieser. ISM report on harassment. Director Netia Jones and composer Brian Irvine on their opera, Least Like the Other. Alice Farnham's book about conducting. Show more
Jess Gillam and Scottish composer C Duncan share the tracks they love, with music by Charles Ives, Broadcast, Lili Boulanger Messiaen and Mahler. Show more
Inside Music
Composer, performer and author Kerry Andrew with repetitive rhythms and refreshing rhymes
1 hour, 56 minutes on BBC Radio 3
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Kerry Andrew reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, including a jazz interpretation of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Björk collaborating with a string quartet. Show more
Matthew meets Bruce Broughton, Hollywood composer of Silverado, The Young Sherlock Holmes and Lost in Space, for a look back at his career in film music.
Lopa Kothari is joined by singer Psoy Korolenko and professor Anna Shternshis for a session of Yiddish songs that were all at one time confiscated by the KGB. Show more
The J to Z team and influential guests reveal the rising star jazz artists to keep an eye on this year. Show more
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Hilary Hahn plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff, as a prelude to Neil Luck's rework in the New Music Show.
Tom Service with the latest new music performance, including a reversioning of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto by Neil Luck, and sound artist Nell Catchpole creates Sounding Change. Show more
Corey Mwamba offers new angles on free jazz and improvised music, with energetic blowouts from Oslo’s Large Unit and reflective conversations between Tomeka Reid and Joe McPhee. Show more
American pianist Garrick Ohlsson performs a programme of Beethoven, Prokofiev and his beloved Chopin. Presented by Jonathan Swain. Show more