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21/11/2025

When Jonathan Bailey calls, the hive mind answers! 🎶 Who can name the piece the Wickedly talented Jonathan Bailey hasn't been able to remember?

Don't miss Jonathan Bailey's full interview with BBC Radio 3's Tom Service – covering musical theatre, the music of Stephen Schwartz, and why schools should bring back recorder lessons. Search "Saturday Morning" on BBC Sounds

The NCEM Young Composers Award has launched for 2026 🎉Presented by BBC Radio 3 and the National Centre for Early Music, ...
19/11/2025

The NCEM Young Composers Award has launched for 2026 🎉

Presented by BBC Radio 3 and the National Centre for Early Music, you're invited to write a new piece for leading Renaissance ensemble The Gonzaga Band.

This award is open to composers resident in the UK aged 25 and below, and applications close in February 2026.

19/11/2025

💕 Rachmaninov in rehearsal. A heart-melting clarinet solo from Section Principal Yann Ghiro!

This Thursday's performance of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony, conducted by Martyn Brabbins at Glasgow City Halls, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 26 November.

18/11/2025

Anoushka Shankar, superstar of the sitar and recent winner of an Ivors Academy award for innovation, chats with Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her 30-year career in music and how, as a member of a great musical family, she has worked to find her own voice.

Honouring one of the most influential conductors of our time, Sir Charles Mackerras, born on this day in 1925.Australian...
17/11/2025

Honouring one of the most influential conductors of our time, Sir Charles Mackerras, born on this day in 1925.

Australian conductor Mackerras was a great champion of Czech music having studied at the Prague Conservatoire in the 1940s, and his award-winning cycle of Janáček operas is just one highlight of an incredibly diverse discography.

He had a deep connection with many leading orchestras, including the BBC Concert Orchestra, of which he was principal conductor from 1954 to 1956. Over his lifetime, he conducted 52 BBC Proms and made history in 1980 as the first non-British conductor to lead the Last Night of the Proms.

Join us all day on BBC Radio 3 as we celebrate his life and the lasting impact he left on the classical music world.

15/11/2025

“What if I score it like a western?”

'Wicked Little Letters' composer Isobel Waller-Bridge was inspired by a moment between leads Jessie Buckley and Olivia 'Collie' Coleman, for her score to the film.

Listen to Sound of Cinema, with Edith Bowman, on BBC Sounds now.

15/11/2025

We asked the red carpet at the Ivor Novello awards what classical music inspires them, and here's what they had to say!

Listen to highlights from the awards on BBC Radio 3, on the New Music Show on Saturday 15 November

14/11/2025

Samara Joy's 2026 Grammy nominated song, 'Peace of Mind/Dreams Come True' performed at the BBC Proms ✨

Watch The Great American Songbook with Samara Joy on BBC iPlayer

12/11/2025

POV: You're being interviewed on live radio from the empty auditorium! ✨

Composer Debbie Wiseman joined Katie Derham to discuss being the inaugural recipient of the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to Screen Composition.

Listen back to In Tune on BBC Sounds, and find highlights from the Ivors on the New Music Show: Saturday 15 November on BBC Radio 3

12/11/2025

It’s and Katie Derham is behind the scenes at Royal Ballet And Opera to find out more about this year’s theme of radical accessibility.

This afternoon, the Royal Ballet livestreams a new work featuring music by Max Richter plus immersive descriptive audio, devised by the blind actor and educator Devon Healey, that aims to open the world of ballet to more people than ever before.

Listen to In Tune on BBC Sounds to find out more.

12/11/2025

Five cinematic symphonic choices for Edith Bowman! 🎬

Sound of Cinema presenter, Edith Bowman, ranks classic film scores – without knowing what was coming next.

Listen to Sound of Cinema every Saturday at 4pm on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds. Edith also hosts Cinematic Soundtracks on Radio 3 Unwind.

10/11/2025

Loop the loop... members of Penguin Cafe recreate the PCO’s distinctive chamber pop sound around a simple repeating ostinato, played on the cuatro.

This is the quirkily-titled In the Back of a Taxi. Listen on BBC Sounds ✨

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