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Record Review
Purcell's Fairy Queen in Building a Library with Nicholas Kenyon and Andrew McGregor
2 hours, 47 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Nicholas Kenyon's recommendation for Purcell's most ambitious stage work, The Fairy Queen, plus the best of this week's new releases with organist and conductor Anna Lapwood. Show more
Music Matters
Stephen Hough, Don Paterson, Elzara Batalova
44 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Kate Molleson talks to pianist Stephen Hough about his memoir, Enough: Scenes From Childhood, which has just been released. Show more
Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with singer, rock sitarist and composer Bishi, including a Shankar and Glass collaboration, Holst in space and Cosmo Sheldrake's cuckoos. Show more
Inside Music
Flautist Claire Wickes with music from Mozart to the sound of a rolling marble
1 hour, 56 minutes on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Claire Wickes reveals familiar and unfamiliar works in a new light, including music for the Estonian kannel and a few favourite moments from operas. Show more
Louise Blain focuses on VR - Virtual Reality - in gaming through the music these types of game have inspired and is joined by Jason Graves, the composer of Lone Echo and Moss. Show more
Lopa Kothari presents a specially recorded studio session from award-winning Indian sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar. Show more
US piano virtuoso James Francies shares some of the music that inspires him, plus concert highlights from saxophonist Emma Rawicz. Show more
From Bavarian State Opera, a comedy of manners that plumbs the depths of human emotion, starring Louise Alder, Sandrine Piau, Christian Gerhaher and Konstantin Krimmel. Show more
Kate Molleson presents a Norwegian focus, including GÅOLOGI by Alwynne Pritchard and Eva Pfitzenmaier - a piece about walking in Bergen. Show more
Corey Mwamba presents new music from pianists inspired by poetry, games and studies in human perception. Show more
The Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and conductor Heinz Holliger perform Schubert symphonies and Bartók's First Violin Concerto with soloist Sebastian Bohren. John Shea presents. Show more