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@BBCRadio3 @EBU_HQ @BBCSounds .@BBCRadio3 Through the Night: six hours of @EBU_HQ concerts & recordings, starting tonight with Ogonek, Rachmaninov & Prokofiev from Berlin 🇩🇪 Listen at 00.30 or here @BBCSounds (UK) any time for 30 days afterwards. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Big birthdays, a big Beethovian money spinner, and two friends competing to come up with best best version of the same thing. All in Essential Classics this morning from 9.30 @BBCRadio3 as our man on the tote explains.

@BBCRadio3 @EBU_HQ @BBCSounds .@BBCRadio3 Through the Night: six hours of @EBU_HQ concerts & recordings, starting tonight with Beethoven & Brahms from Lausanne 🇨🇭 #MarthaArgerich @RCapucon Listen at 00.30 or here @BBCSounds (UK) any time for 30 days afterwards. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Echoes, eclipses and oblivion. Just some of the ingredients to savour. I’m back! Join me for plenty of Essential Classics from 9.30 till 1 @BBCRadio3. Our man is there….

.@BBCRadio3 Through the Night: six hours of @EBU_HQ concerts & recordings, starting tonight with Bach, Vivaldi & Telemann from Bucharest 🇷🇴 Listen at 00.30 or here @BBCSounds (UK) any time for 30 days afterwards. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

On Private Passions at noon @BBCRadio3 Miranda Hart who burst into our living rooms in 2009 with her semi-autobiographical, multi-award winning TV sit-com Miranda. Miranda's musical choices include Grieg, Bach, Bizet and Mozart.

.@BBCRadio3 Through the Night: *five* hours of @EBU_HQ concerts & recordings tonight as the clocks go forward 🕰️ ➡️ starting with Schumann & Sally Beamish string quartets from London 🇬🇧 Listen at 00.30 or here @BBCSounds (UK) for 30 days afterwards. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The propulsive opening of Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata, as written into one of his sketchbooks at the start of the 19th century...but which recordings rise to the challenges of this middle period epic? Find out in Building a Library at 3pm @BBCRadio3 ...and...

Morning! Join us @BBCRadio3 for a Gold & Silver Waltz to start, @houghhough with a Chopin Nocturne, Haydn’s 🎺 Concerto & in the Playlister it’s Martinu’s Kitchen Revue 📻🎹❤️👌🎶🥶

Sleet, hail and frozen rain sent everyone inside apart from hardy dogwalkers. Here on Classical Live we're reflecting four seasons in a day with a concert from @BBCPhilharmonic from their studio here in Salford. Plus chamber music from LSO St Lukes. Drop in @BBCRadio3

Errrr it’s freezing 🥶! Get a hot water bottle and join us @BBCRadio3 9.30 for Schumann’s Arabesque in c, Wolf’s Italian Serenade, Schubert’s Strong Quintet in C & Mel Bonis’ Nacisse in the Playlister 🌼 📻👌❤️🎹

Possibly my favourite Vaughan Williams Symphony, since Tod Handley conducded it for a youth orchestra I as in as a teenager: A London Symphony, magical atmospheres and cityscapes and great recordings compared in Building a Library at 3pm @BBCRadio3 ...and new things from 2pm

Happy Friday! I’ve got Chouqettes! Join us @BBCRadio3 for The Great Gate of Kiev to start, a Peterborough Chipmunk 🐿️ in a 🎹 piece by Amy Beach, some Beethoven 7 & in the Playlister There Will Come Soft Rains by Lucy Walker

Morning! We made it to Wednesday and the sun is shining! Join us @BBCRadio3 9.30 for Sol Gabetta playing Elgar to start, Julius Assal playing Domenico Scarlatti, Handel’s Va Tacito & a piece called Guacamayo in the Playlister, all about a South American parrot 🦜

Delighted to have on Private Passions at noon @BBCRadio3 the American writer George Saunders who won the 2017 Booker Prize with his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. His new novel is Vigil and his music includes John Adams, William Grant Still, Caroline Shaw and Dvorak.

Expect more than a sprinkling of appropriate pieces for March 15th 2026, plus a celebration of live music and those who make it with tributes to a couple of winners at the recent RPS Awards. Grab a croissant and a coffee and come and join us @BBCRadio3 Sunday Breakfast 6.30 to 9

Maybe the most immediately identifiable Janacek piece premiered 100 years ago: his Sinfonietta, so we've a centenary edition of Building a Library, Janacek expert Nigel Simeone comparing recordings @BBCRadio3 at 3pm. Here's the famous opening Fanfare from Janacek's autograph...

The 4th and final programme in my @BBCRadio3 series “Turning the Page” is this Saturday. Do join me and enjoy some wonderful music, as well as the illuminating conversations I had with Maria Joao Pires and Herbert Blomstedt.

He is one of my main guests in the final programme of my Music Matters series @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds this coming Saturday at 1pm. Do tune in & hear the secret of his longevity!

What do you get if you cross The Archers theme tune with Rachmaninoff? I tried...here’s the result. Celebrating 75 years of the world’s longest-running drama (by the way, Arthur Wood composed the original Archers theme). @BBCRadio4