Charpentier’s Te Deum: what a magnificent piece! French Baroque at its finest. Envying anyone who hadn’t heard it before. Thanks to BBC Radio 3 & Tom McKinney for the full work.

We're an hour into Classical Live on BBC Radio 3. Still to come before 4 - Dvorak's radiant 11th String Quartet and music from the Eurovision song contest by 2006 winners Lordi. Well not really. But there is a Eurovision link to some stunning choral music by Charpentier.

Tom McKinney Now following BBC Radio 3 with my score, Tom.

Thanks to everyone last month who sponsored my Grade 1 singing exam. Just found out I got a distinction! 😂 😂 😂 So in Classical Live on Radio 3 this afternoon, I was going to play Harmonielehre by John Adams, but I'm ditching it and singing you my Grade 1 songs instead 😲🕺

A bit moist in Salford. Classical Live starts on BBC Radio 3 from 1pm. The Ébène String Quartet play Ravel, Ailish Tynan sings Richard Strauss, Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from the BBC Philharmonic and an Overture by Marianna Martines. See you there! 👋

Today we’re in the studio recording for Chandos Records with Juanjo Mena!
You can see our Tonmeister Stephen Rinker at the ready on the desk...

Smetana's grave at Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague. At about 1.30 I've got a concert with his 1st String Quartet, the story of the ups & downs in his life. Also Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony and violinist Rachel Podger plays Bach. Classical Live on BBC Radio 3 - with you till 4pm.

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RITE OF SPRING ON @bbcradio3 IN 5 MINUTES

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Tune in this afternoon to BBC Radio 3's new Classical Live programme to hear a recording of us performing Beethoven’s ‘The Creatures of Prometheus’.
Listen to us at 2pm. 📻
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The spirit of Robert Schumann flows through Wigmore Hall at lunchtime. Nicolas Altstaedt & Dénes Várjon play his Fantasy Pieces, then the premier of Jörg Widmann’s Album Leaves (a witty and affectionate Schumann homage). Then big, passionate Brahms. Join us 1pm BBC Radio 3

The only time I've seen Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring actually done as a ballet was this sensational production in Copenhagen in 2019. This afternoon in Classical Live BBC Radio 3 it's the Radio France Philharmonic doing some damage to your listening devices in The Rite at 3pm.

Last concert in the series today - we’ll be back in September! A huge thanks to Katie, Flo, Aimee and all Leeds Concert Season for all their fantastic support, with Lucy and the tech team for the streaming. And all the wonderful performers for taking part.

.Sean Shibe playing new Cassandra Miller with Dunedin Consort. London, Saffron Walden, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Ghent - everyone should go to this

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If anyone wants to know what I have been doing the last 16 months of my life, this 😅🥳

Up with the lark? ⛅

Join Tom McKinney for Breakfast with a willow warbler 🐦‍ Vaughan Williams on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Bach St John Passion and a brand new Piazzolla recording from Tomas Cotik 🎧
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Just a lone Robin singing before sunrise at Media City. I'm here with you for Sunday Breakfast BBC Radio 3. Guitarist Craig Ogden plays Malcolm Arnold, Vaughan Williams's Tallis Fantasia from The Hallé and the star of the show is a Willow Warbler! See you at 6.30 ⏰

Classical Live BBC Radio 3 from Salford, 1-4pm. Final programme of the first week, and there's all the good stuff to fill your afternoon. Simone Young conducting Brahms's 4th Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & piano duets from Hélène Mercier & Louis Lortie. 🍾

Here’s something special from our recording session yesterday, gemma rosefield and Tim Horton sounding lush in Korngold. Look out for our #Pierrot CD release in September. There’ll be this and many more delights! #schoenberg150

Tippett's Triple Concerto is a neglected masterpiece (in my humble opinion) and not to be missed with these amazing artists - plus delicious music by Purcell arr. Barbirolli, Elgar, Ades & a new work by Oliver Leith. 🎶

The band is back together! Sheffield here we come 🥰 ⁦Ensemble 360⁩ ⁦Music in the Round⁩ ⁦