Welcome to the proms

On Friday 18 July, at the hands of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sakari Oramo, the BBC Proms will be launched into life with Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood – two minu

1 TUESDAY 6.30-9.30am Breakfast 9.30am-1pm Essential Classics 1-4pm Classical Live CHOICE 4-5pm Composer of the Week Satie 5-7pm In Tune 7-7.30pm Classical Mixtape 7.30-9.45pm Radio 3 In Concert from

It’s easy to take for granted the way in which the ebb, flow and detail of a piece of orchestral music televised from the BBC Proms is reflected in the range of images on our screens. Yet the many hun

Symphony No. 5; Swanwhite Suite etc Christian Tetzlaff (violin); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Ondine ODE 1468-2 77:16 mins One of the features of Finland’s impressive music educati

RADIO

1 SUNDAY 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