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Your guide to what’s on BBC Radio 3 this month, plus TV highlights

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BBC Music Magazine

16 May, 2023

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February’s radio 3 listings

6.30-9am Sunday Breakfast 9am-12pm Sunday Morning 12-1.30pm Private Passions 1.30-3pm Music Map 3-4pm Choral Evensong 4-5pm Jazz Record Requests 5-6pm The Early Music Show 6-7.15pm Words and Music 7.1

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Characterful symphonies and a striking discovery

Kammerorchester Basel/Giovanni Antonini Alpha ALPHA1092 76:29 mins The most familiar of the symphonies here, if only because it has a nickname, is No. 55, whose ‘Schoolmaster’ title arises out of the

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Baroque performances of infectious vitality

Works by Bach, Vivaldi and Marcello Amandine Beyer (violin); Gli Incogniti Harmonia Mundi HMM90276970 134 mins The communicative warmth and infectious vitality of Amandine Beyer’s performances will ha

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Dazzling ballet suites reimagined

Andrey Gugnin (piano) Hyperion CDA684712 83 mins This album of Russian ballet transcriptions sparkles like a glass bauble hanging amidst the fairy lights. Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky wrote so colourful

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Grace williams

Grace Williams loved the sea. In later life, BBC television cameras captured one of her daily morning walks in Barry on the coast of Glamorgan – she strides purposefully along, looking out over the Br

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Remarkable performances of late stravinsky works

Cappella Amsterdam; Noord Nederlands Orkest/ Daniel Reuss Pentatone PTC5187489 72:42 mins ‘He always was and still is ahead of everybody.’ The words of Stravinsky’s musical assistant and colleague, Ro

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February’s radio 3 listings

BBC Music Magazine

Characterful symphonies and a striking discovery

BBC Music Magazine

Baroque performances of infectious vitality

BBC Music Magazine

Dazzling ballet suites reimagined

BBC Music Magazine

Grace williams

BBC Music Magazine

Remarkable performances of late stravinsky works