Classical music
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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Raising the Dead. Audio, 30 minutes
Composer Adam Gorb goes on a journey to listen to the lost music of concentration camps.
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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 BBC Philharmonic in this Radio 4 Prom.
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Composer of the Week. Bellini. Audio, 64 minutes
Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini
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Birth of an Orchestra. Audio, 30 minutes
Alan Bennett and musicians young and old consider the orchestral heritage of Yorkshire.
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The Jacqueline Effect. Audio, 30 minutes
Can there be too many cellists? How Jacqueline du Pré created a surfeit of cellists!
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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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The Essay. Minds at War: Series 2, Parade. Audio, 15 minutes
Richard Cork discusses Pablo Picasso's designs for the Ballets Russes production Parade.
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In Search of the Black Mozart. Episode 2. Audio, 30 minutes
Chi-chi Nwanoku turns musical detective in search of black composers and musicians.
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Sunday Feature. In Their Own Write: Notes from the Congress of Vienna. Audio, 45 minutes
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of the Congress of Vienna and how it still affects us.
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Sunday Feature. Mission Harpsichord. Audio, 45 minutes
Mahan Esfahani discovers why the harpsichord is an often misunderstood instrument.
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Sunday Feature. From Convent to Concert Hall. Audio, 45 minutes
Kate Kennedy reviews four female string players who were pioneering in their own lifetimes
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