Classical music
The Essay. Inspiring Women in Music, Inspiring Women in Music: Alice Farnham. Audio, 15 minutes
Alice Farnham, one of Britain's leading female conductors, discusses her life in music.
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The Essay. Inspiring Women in Music, Inspiring Women in Music: Kathryn McAdam. Audio, 15 minutes
Soprano Kathryn McAdam discusses her life in music as well as what and who inspires her.
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The Essay. Inspiring Women in Music, Inspiring Women in Music: Nicola LeFanu. Audio, 15 minutes
Composer Nicola LeFanu discusses her musical career, spanning over half a century.
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The Essay. Inspiring Women in Music, Inspiring Women in Music: Sarah Connolly. Audio, 15 minutes
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly on her career, her family and characters she has played.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks. Audio, 15 minutes
The spectacular state-of-the-art first performance of Handel's Royal Fireworks.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4. Audio, 15 minutes
Stephen Johnson on Beethoven's decision to unveil three new works at one public concert.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Shostakovich: Symphony No 5. Audio, 15 minutes
Stephen Johnson considers how Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony surprised its audience.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Byrd: Mass for Four Voices. Audio, 15 minutes
The secret performances of Byrd's masses in Elizabethan England.
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The Essay. Music in Its Time, Music in Its Time - Mahler's Symphony No 8. Audio, 15 minutes
The 1910 premiere of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, for which he hired impresario Emil Gutman.
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The Essay. The Secret Mathematician, Music. Audio, 15 minutes
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy reveals the maths that inspires the work of musicians.
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) Petroc Trelawny on Lennox Berkeley. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny celebrates English composer Lennox Berkeley.
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) John Toal on Maurice Ravel. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio 3 presenter John Toal celebrates French composer Maurice Ravel.
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) Clemency Burton-Hill on George Enescu. Audio, 14 minutes
Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates Romanian composer George Enescu
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) Ian McMillan on Ralph Vaughan Williams. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio 3 presenter and poet Ian McMillan celebrates the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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The Essay. Secret Admirers (Series 2) Fiona Talkington on Joseph Canteloube. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio 3 presenter Fiona Talkington celebrates French composer Joseph Canteloube.
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Sunday Feature. Pierre Boulez: Rebel with a Cause. Audio, 44 minutes
An archive episode of the Sunday Feature to commemorate the death of Pierre Boulez
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The Essay. Five Seismic Moments in New Music, Tom Service - Where Have All the Seismic Moments Gone? Audio, 15 minutes
Tom Service reflects on the lack of any seismic shocks in 21st-century music.
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The Essay. Five Seismic Moments in New Music, Sarah Walker on Steve Reich's Four Organs. Audio, 15 minutes
Sarah Walker reflects on Steve Reich's radically minimalist Four Organs.
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The Essay. Five Seismic Moments in New Music, Sara Mohr Pietsch on the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Audio, 15 minutes
Sara Mohr-Pietsch on the appetite in the west for eastern European music after 1989.
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The Essay. Five Seismic Moments in New Music, Robert Worby on John Cage's 4'33" Audio, 15 minutes
Robert Worby reflects on the first performance of John Cage's 4'33".
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Wireless Nights. Series 4, Underwater at the Proms. Audio, 60 minutes
Jarvis Cocker goes on an undersea voyage with the 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic in this Radio 4 Prom.
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Sunday Feature. A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death? Audio, 45 minutes
Martin Handley explores current attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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The Radio 3 Documentary. Sunday Feature: A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death? Audio, 44 minutes
Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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