Morning! Join us BBC Radio 3 for Lezginka from Gayaneh, Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, a Battalia by Biber. Our Playlister is by Michael Berkeley & you’ll recognise it from Private Passions, The Wakeful Poet from Music From Chaucer & Part’s Spiegel im Spiegel @ 10.10 📻

Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today a 16th century Requiem by Jean Richaforte, a Flemish composer who enjoyed the patronage of Queen Ann of Brittany, Jonathan Biss summons Beethoven’s Emporer, Francesca Dego plays Kreisler’s reinvention of Paganini and Ravel from Labeque Sisters.

A tribute to Sir Andrew Davis, Thursday 25 April 2024.

Radio 3 in Concert revisits the great conductor’s last BBC Proms with a BBC Philharmonic performance from 2022. Join us at 7.30pm on Thursday 🕢
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🎬 Elliot Goldenthal wrote the music for Frida and Batman Forever.

30 years on from his score to Interview with the Vampire, the Oscar-winning composer talks to Matthew Sweet about all this and working with Aaron Copland on Sound of Cinema 🌟
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Tuesday's Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Art Tatum plays the piano, night and day;
Max Reger makes a journey in peace and joy; April Cantelo considers the soft flowing Avon and Tabea Zimmerman helps make up a six for Brahms. We are live until 0930.

#EarthDay2024 on Radio 3...
🌍 A performance of Earth Choir from Eric Whitacre and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
🌎 A movement from Gustav Mahler’s The Song of the Earth
🌏 An Essential Classics music mix inspired by the natural world
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“To enjoy the good times, you have to have the down times as well”

@Mrs_IzzyJudd is joined by Hannah Barrett to find out how to keep stress at bay through the power of music and meditation.

The Music & Meditation Podcast | Listen on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m…

🎶 @MarinAlsop, Music Director Laureate at Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is one of the world's most in-demand conductors and a passionate advocate for access to the arts, for equality and for new music. Tom Service and Marin talked on Tom's new show Saturday Morning. Listen now on BBC Sounds

“Just let it be”

Buddhist monk and meditation teacher Gelong Thubten reminds Izzy Judd that meditation still works even if your mind wanders. The Music & Meditation Podcast BBC Sounds 🎧bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

We're in one of the most picturesque regions of the UK in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's the Scherzo from Holst's Cotswold Symphony. Holst was organist and choirmaster at Wyck Rissington &conducted the choral society at Bourton-on-the-Water. Where next?

On Breakfast BBC Radio 3 this morning we will celebrate the life of Sir Andrew Davis, with Strauss, Elgar, and Bach on harpsichord; New York composer Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered & Heifetz plays the spiritual Go Down Moses ahead of the first night of Passover.

Sir Andrew was associated with the BBC orchestras and with the @BBCProms for over 50 years…

‘Whenever this comes on at a party I kinda lose my mind.’

What gets composer Gavin Higgins moving? Find out when he talks to Jess Gillam on #ThisClassicalLife . Gavin & Jess share tracks by #Sibelius , #Schumann , #Bowie & #Loreen . Listen BBC Sounds bit.ly/3U5UjSn

For Sir Neville Marriner's centenary we gave over the whole day to the music he loved and the recordings he made. So much glorious music. Start with this half-hour mixtape of his treasured recordings, on
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🎶 @MarinAlsop, Music Director Laureate at Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is one of the world's most in-demand conductors and a passionate advocate for access to the arts, for equality and for new music. Tom Service and Marin talked on Tom's new show Saturday Morning. Listen now on BBC Sounds

Producer Matthew and Jools Holland engaged in a bit of crate-digging for the new show. Jools is joined by Ricky Riccardi, Louis Armstrong expert, who shares Louis's favourites classical music, including Schubert, Verdi and Mascagni. Listen on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The newly extended BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is live. Tchaikovsky and Berlioz as we mark the bicentenary of Byron's death, Jennifer Higdon sets O magnum mysterium, Peter Donohoe and the Sacconi Quartet record Sergei Taneyev, and Doreen Carwithen bemoans one damn thing after another.

“To enjoy the good times, you have to have the down times as well”

@Mrs_IzzyJudd is joined by Hannah Barrett to find out how to keep stress at bay through the power of music and meditation.

The Music & Meditation Podcast | Listen on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m…

Breakfast is live until 9.30 BBC Radio 3 Today German composer Luise Adolpha Le Beau writes for cello, Jocelyn Pook walks on the wild side. Helene Grimaux’s Ravel and a Breakfast Exclusive as we reveal winners of the BBC Music Magazine Awards incl Calidore Str Quartet & @EnsPgymalion

For Sir Neville Marriner's centenary we gave over the whole day to the music he loved and the recordings he made. So much glorious music. Start with this half-hour mixtape of his treasured recordings, on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…