In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 it's The Night of Revelry from The Night of the Mayas – a 1939 Mexican film about a man who stumbles upon a tribe of people living like their Mayan ancestors, composed by the Mexican Silvestre Revueltas. Where next?
Tune in to BBC Radio 3 tonight at 7.30pm to hear Juanjo Mena lead a programme of sun-kissed music by Berlioz, Ravel and Falla.
James Ehnes joins us for music by Saint-Saëns and Sarasate.
Recorded The Bridgewater Hall on 13 April.📻
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📷 Chris Payne
Quite certain you don’t need another picture of me in the studio but I had a haircut and felt cute. New do - new day with shed loads of terrific music for you this afternoon. And you know what I’d love to have you with me. 1pm on BBC Radio 3 on Classical Live
🎼 It was the first ever wildlife outside broadcast, and the first true radio hit. It made of Beatrice Harrison a celebrity and sold thousands of records. Kate Kennedy tells the story of this most unusual duet. Listen on BBC Sounds.
Good morning from the escalator. Join us BBC Radio 3 @ 9.30 for Vivaldi writing for 2 🎻s to start, the Overture from Die Fledermaus, Cadiz by Albeniz & in the Playlister, music from a 1939 Mexican film, The Night of the Mayas by Revueltas. Be there 📻👌🎶
Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Wendy Carlos plays a Bach Brandenburg on a Moog synthesizer, James Ehnes & Beethoven mark spring, music for Whit Week with Shirley & Dolly Collins and David Munrow and Ligeti & Saint-Saens celebrate turtles and tortoises. Join us.
Folk artist Olivia Chaney talks to Jess Gillam about the importance of music for mental wellbeing in the latest episode of #ThisClassicalLife .
Plus, the music of Joni Mitchell, Louis Andriessen and Miles Davis 🎧bbc.in/3wP9l7f
#mentalhealth
Radio 3’s latest listening figures are in:
🎶 Two million weekly listeners
🎶 Regular listeners tuning in for longer
🎶 More new listeners to the station and on BBC Sounds
More about Radio 3 listening: bbc.in/3QO8H0G
I've just realised as @ruthwallharp and I set up for this evening's performance at Mareel that Uist will get its first wee broadcast tonight on BBC Radio 3 #NightTracks for non-Shetlanders out there. Thank you Sara Mohr-Pietsch #Uist #harp
You can do the fandango (or habanera, farruca or perhaps the jota). Your partners will be James Ehnes and BBC Philharmonic. Dancing shoes on and castanets at the ready. See you 7.30pm BBC Radio 3
“It’s very much a conversation between the cello and piano”
Isata Kanneh-Mason and Sheku Kanneh-Mason perform the third movement of Chopin’s cello sonata live in the studio ahead of their appearances BBC Proms 2024. In Tune BBC Sounds ▶ bbc.in/3URN6FJ
Head to BBC Radio 3's In Tune tonight at 5pm to hear live jazz from Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio. Garland's new album Moment of Departure features our leader Thomas Gould.
We tour with The Lighthouse Trio this autumn - London dates on sale now.
🎧 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
In 2008, @ClemencyBH joined the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. She says 'it was one of the most formative and informative experiences' of her life. We're thrilled that she's back on Radio 3, with a six-part series about Daniel Barenboim's remarkable project, on BBC Sounds
Nightingales are a big part of BBC Radio 3 today. Here's one I recorded recently RSPB Lakenheath Fen. And producer Barnaby Gordon came in ridiculously early to record a dawn chorus. Sunday Breakfast starts at 6.30. Bach, Faure, Farrenc, Vaughan Williams, Beach and Schubert all on the way.
What an INCREDIBLE night with John Storgårds & Hallé Choir! Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Bridgewater Hall.
🎶Bridge: Enter Spring
🎶Shostakovich: Symphony No. 3
🎶Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 27 June.
📷 Chris Payne/BBC
Congratulations to RCM student Ryan Collis, who has won the 2024 NCEM Young Composers Award👏
Ryan's work 'Lux Divinae' will be premiered by Tallis Scholars at Saffron Hall in October, and later broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Early Music Show.
Read more: youngcomposersaward.co.uk
Great to spend a couple of days in Hoddinott Hall Wales Millennium Centre with the fabulous BBC NOW Juliette Crosbie Timothy Howar / Hawryluk & Clare Teal for BBC Radio 3 BBC Sounds
In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 we've gone fully floral, it's Britten's To Daffodils, setting Herrick: 'Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon'. Where next?
