Ian Skelly
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BBC Broadcaster, Host of BBC Radio 3’s afternoon show, Afternoon Concert and the BBC Proms. Writer and Filmmaker. On Insta as @theianskelly
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One last go at Essential Classics this morning
@BBCRadio3
. You never know, I may get it right. I'll say this only once: thank you for all the very moving comments and messages. Why not join me in the afternoons in a fortnight? But join me at 9 for another great morning of music.
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The duvets are up, the dog's in lock down, taking the advice seriously, Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
@BBCArtsPR
is live from my home grown padded cell. Music by Saint Saens & his laundry maid and by the original Mr Bean amongst the delights. So, let’s stay home together from 9.
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Sad news. RIP Glenda Jackson. When we talked
@BBCRadio3
she told me the only rider she ever had when she did a play was that there had to be a radio in her dressing room so she could listen to Radio 3. I met her as a fan… and she said she met me as a fan. A very humbling moment.
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So here we go. A new role in the afternoons
@BBCRadio3
with performances every day you won’t hear anywhere else. On Day One symphonies by Beethoven and a heart rending concerto by Elgar among the delights. Join me for great music from 2.
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On a glorious walk this morning, this in my little local park. A young magnolia tree in perfect bloom. Each flower saluting the sun, full of life and promise. A quiet reminder of the resilience in life. I'm here at home
@BBCRadio3
at 9 with music to help us all get through this.
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What a welcome view! Back in BH after a long 3 months presenting Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
from home. The dog is so pleased to have the run of the house and very pleased to bring you another morning of great music. Join me live from the BBC at 9.
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Farewell boiling hot South Ken tube station for another year. Congratulations one and all
@bbcproms
and to all
@BBCRadio3
. It’s incredibly moving to watch it happen so smoothly behind the scenes night after night. It was a blast on air and one of the most memorable seasons.
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Oh no. I'm in the Michael Gove memorial lift. Will I make it out for Afternoon Concert
@BBCRadio3
? I have a magnificent piano concerto by Beethoven, a symphony by Stravinsky's piano teacher and Mozart arias as you've never heard them before. Going up but let's hope I get out.
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Duvets on the walls & my trusty studio assistant is ready to dote on her master’s voice - or bark the house down. It’s Essential Classics from my own broadcasting house again
@BBCRadio3
@BBCArtsPR
Join me from 9 today as we 'pluck' our way to build a playlist together.
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Thank you for all your questions and concern. To clarify, I’m not leaving
@BBCRadio3
at all. I’m based in London not Salford so have had to take a difficult decision but lots to look forward to. Maybe even a surprise or two.
@YesWombat
@GjaMacphee
@rowenamezzo
@BBCRadio3
I would like to know too. On
#InTune
tonight, Katie Derham interviewed Radio 3’s Controller
@classicjacko
and didn’t raise the topic!
@Ianskellyradio3
and
@martinhandleyr3
seem to be leaving the network. What a way to treat such excellent and much respected presenters.
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Just occasionally, when life really is dealing you a challenge too many, it’s good to take a walk… up a hill… all the way. Today was a good day. At last.
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Rush hour Sunday morning on the London Underground. Heading to BBC Broadcasting House to host Breakfast
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
to wake you gently to the world with some lovely music, and the odd bit of fun. I'll be on air from 7am... if a tube train ever arrives.
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A gala concert at 36 Wigmore Street better known as
@wigmore_hall
helping to launch the Director’s Fund. Great honour to be part of the hosting team with the marvellous
@hannahcfrench
. May this hall go on being the power house of so much musical talent in this country.
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I was made to watch one too many Jason Bourne films over the holiday. It seems to have rubbed off. Join me for the full, action-packed experience from 2
@BBCRadio3
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Busy today
@wigmore_hall
for
@BBCRadio3
and gearing up for my return to Essential Classics, as explained by our man at the scene.
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Back on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
for 2 more weeks before it's all change. A night in a garden in Spain launches the Playlist Challenge. I also have some stunning Bruckner and hear a concerto discovered when it arrived by accident in the post. Join me as I unwrap it all at 9.
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Thank you for all the very kind remarks
@BBCRadio3
@BBCArtsPR
. Everyone very pleased with the increase in he 16% rise in the number of you tuning in. Very pleased to see Essential Classics now has the biggest audience it's had since 2010. Onwards and upwards with your help.
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My penultimate afternoon
@BBCRadio3
before I head to the mornings, so enjoy one more cup of lapsang... "or perhaps a peaty whiskey" - strange is the magic of radio indeed - as Britten greets Apollo, Bruckner blesses a house and Schoenberg transfigures a night. I'm on air from 2.
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Ooh er, new kit from BBC Engineering joe installed to make sure home broadcasting is once again studio quality. Join me at 9
@BBCRadio3
tomorrow morning to see if it all works! Fingers and wires crossed.
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… and breathe. A tranquil afternoon beneath a suddenly biblical Cornish sky. A pause before work begins. But what a pause…
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Here we go again. My first
@bbcproms
of the season, hosting the mighty
@BBCSO
playing Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Ravel’s bright and beautiful Piano Concerto with the brilliant young Radio 3 New Gen Artist, pianist Tom Borrow. We’re live
@BBCRadio3
at 7.30.
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It worries me too.
@sarahgailbrand
@BBCRadio3
@PetrocTrelawny
is my calm in an ever increasing storm. I dread the days he and
@Ianskellyradio3
are not on air.
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on the way in to present the afternoon show
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
and it’s a pleasant and surprising walk.
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Poised. Mark Wigglesworth about to conduct a one off orchestra
@bbcproms
. All freelancer musicians hit badly by the lockdowns. A salute to the brilliant, fast working and adaptable musicians who keep live music in the UK going, join me at 7.30
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
@BBCArtsPR
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Still reeling from a tremendous night
@bbcproms
but hosting the afternoon show
@BBCRadio3
will revive me with Vikingur Olafsson playing Bach and a cello concerto by someone who only started composing in her 80s. Quite a story. Join me at 2 for much more besides.
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I’m on your little radio again with Sunday Breakfast
@BBCRadio3
. Bach, Haydn and Handel sit alongside surprises by Sarah Quartel, Arensky, Poulenc and a simply beautiful piece by William Walton. Tune that radio and wake to the world with a coffee and me from 7am on Sunday.
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This has cheered the afternoon team
@BBCRadio3
no end. Thank you
@BBCNOW
.... and Molly.
Back by popular demand🎺
Our Principal Trombone, Donal Bannister and his amazing singing dog…Molly!🐶
Here’s their rendition of the Welsh national anthem in support of the Welsh rugby team in the 2024
#SixNations
which kicks off this week!
Good luck!🏴
@WelshRugbyUnion
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Foggy old morning in the mountains of north London. Lovely and clear at BBC BH where from 7
@BBCRadio3
I’ll be on air to brighten the morning in a gentle Sunday morning kind of way. Lovely stuff planned. Why not join me.
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Back on the home mic
@BBCRadio3
for a concert by the
@philharmonia
with
@pkkolesnikov
joining me live to introduce his performance of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto. There's a lovely quality of chamber music about his playing with the orchestra. Have a listen. We're live at 7.30
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Hard to drive on a motorway with tears in your eyes. If you’re struggling at the moment, this puts everything in perspective. It’s moving from beginning to the very end. Tremendous prog
@MichaelBerkele2
@BBCRadio3
@LoftusMedia
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Happy to have become a truck spotter to see this big baby at Cadogan Hall to record a concert by the
@rpoonline
for broadcast next week
@BBCRadio3
. So glad to see the wheels on the bus going round again. And the team driving it. It's been a long old time.
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Here here Stephen. If anything moved me more it was this very fact. Long live them all and the excellence they represent.
Massive respect to the hundreds of singers, orchestral & band musicians, composers, arrangers, sound engineers, organisers and assistants responsible for today’s music. This is something at which we genuinely are world-leading - and will, I hope, remain so. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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The Icelandic pianist
@VikingurMusic
and the
@philharmonia
prepping for tonight’s
@BBCProms
, playing Bach and a Mozart concerto with
@paavo_jarvi
conducting Prokofiev & Shostakovich. I’ll be talking to them both and with my guest
@tasminlittle
at 7.30
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
.
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@MichaelBerkele2
I once had an argument with a future politician about the importance of the arts but she would have none of it, seeing it as mere entertainment. Speak to someone, reference anything and you speak of the arts. They’re the expression of civilisation. Not to see that is terrifying.
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So, then, here we go. What do you reckon? This is how the sun and moon will look today briefly over Britain. It’s a full eclipse elsewhere. Arnold Bax Dances in the Sun on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
. How do we build our playlist after that? It’s your call. Join me at 9.30.
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Expertly done Al. Mrs Skelly used to read the Shipping Forecast. We were once at a lunch party and an elegant lady of senior years discovered this and was overjoyed. She listened every night post midnight. “Tell me,” she said, “I’ve always wanted to know. Are you conducted?”
The end of an era! I had the great honour and privilege of reading the very last weekday separate/split 17:54
@ShippingForecas
on
@BBCRadio4
LW this afternoon. Here’s a little clip of the final few moments of it. I shall miss it !
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Hello Albert, my old friend. We’re live at last
@bbc_proms
.
@londonsymphony
plays Elgar, a world premiere from Thomas Ades and Vaughan Williams’s serene 5th symphony. It’s so good to be back! Join me live
@bbcradio3
@bbcsounds
@bbcarts
7.30 this Sunday evening.
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On my early morning walks before Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
I pass this beautiful tree now in full bloom. A Handkerchief Tree. Matching its beauty today from 9 Handel, Mozart & Faure, more essential Sibelius & a slow mo from William Byrd. You may need your own hanky.
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All emotions are here
@bbcproms
. John Eliot Gardiner lives this music as he conducts seemingly within it. The
@mco_london
perform masterpieces by two 22 year olds, Handel and Bach, and I talk to him about his 60th Proms appearance. Join me
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
live at 7.30.
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In BH mission control ready to anchor Day 2 of our celebration
@BBCRadio3
of BBC orchestras and choirs. At 11am to Belfast with
@UlsterOrchestra
, at 4pm
@BBCSingers
and
@Howard_Goodall
and at 7.30 to Glasgow
@BBCSSO
. Should be a grand day out.
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A leisurely pose at the Albert Hall on air with Sean Rafferty
@BBCInTune
previewing tonight’s
@bbcproms
celebrating Aretha Franklin with
@julesbuckley
and
@SheleaMusic
. Taking it easy for a reason. The cable wasn’t long enough to be far enough away to be heard! Live at 7.30
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Ready and waiting.
@pkkolesnikov
fills this mighty hall with one of Bach’s great masterpieces, the Goldbergs. The perfect antidote to the stresses of the day, and the quiet before the storm of the Last Night
@bbcproms
. I’m live tonight
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
@BBCArtsPR
at 7.30
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Do join me
@BBCRadio3
for a live edition of Radio 3 in Concert tonight at 7.30 as
@TheSixteen
perform one of the landmark masterpieces in all of classical music, as our man at the scene explains…
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If you think that Philip, then you think right.
@Ianskellyradio3
@BBCRadio3
What are you doing in the mornings? I like to think you would be back on Essential Classics despite the less than courteous way you were treated.
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This is good! Join me tonight
@BBCRadio3
for a truly sumptuous sounding concert celebrating John Tavener.
@BBCSingers
@natalieclein
making the most of one of the best acoustics
@Kings_College
, as heard behind our correspondent as he explains from the scene. On air at 7.30pm.
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This was a gorgeous concert, to present and to listen to
@BBCRadio3
.
@TallisScholars
performing music by John Taverner of the 16th Century and John Tavener of the 20th. If you missed it last night it’s more than worth catching on
@BBCSounds
.
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A lovely home for the next 4 days
@wigmore_hall
for concerts streamed live on the Wigmore Hall website. All free to view. Have a gander tonight as
@LaSerenissimaUK
@AdeSerenissima
&
@DandyJessic
perform Vivaldi, Telemann and their lesser known contemporaries. We're live at 7.30.
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Thrilling to see the boy’s name on the bill with Midori and next to Prokofiev & Bartok. Thank you
@sofiaphilh
for the world premier of a piece he thought was a string quartet and then realised it was for brass and timps. Shame
@BBCRadio3
couldn’t be there, but maybe one day…
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Back in Broadcasting House
@BBCRadio3
@BBCArtsPR
@BBCSounds
for a new week of Essential Classics with music written for the real Sebastian Flyte. Ideas please to follow it. Hear Brahms writing for Mary Poppins - oh yes - & Paul McCartney’s favourite bit of Britten, all from 9.
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Hi ho hi ho it's off to locked down broadcasting at home I go. Nice view on my commute upstairs, though.
Ideas please to match a Klezmer infused Symphony, and hear music by a man of mystery, Oswald of the Castle in the Clouds. Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
. Join me at home at 9.
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A tour of the studio where all the magic will happen this afternoon from 2
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
operated by a trained and seasoned professional, as demonstrated…
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Sing along now. John Eliot Gardiner rehearsing the
@mco_london
in Handel and Bach for tonight’s
@bbcproms
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
honing every detail. I talk to him and
@SuzanneAspden
about Handel in Italy. We’re live for wonderful music at 7.30.
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Yes. V sad news which came through just before we went on air
@BBCRadio3
with the
@BBCNOW
. Nicola was supposed to have presented the concert but was too ill. We decided not to mention the news as it would undoubtedly have rocked the orchestra. A tough night for all at Radio 3.
@Ianskellyradio3
@BBCRadio3
@BBCNOW
@ChristianCurnyn
A magnificent concert. Sadly, returning home to hear the news of the passing of Nicola Heywood-Thomas who introduced so many of the concerts. A fitting tribute to a well respected broadcaster.
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Back at the mother ship today recording a rare visit to the UK by the
@amstbaroque
and Ton Koopman, here
@wigmore_hall
and being recorded for
@BBCRadio3
in concert. An evening of sublime Bach sure to be enjoyable when it goes out on the 30th September. Lovely to be back.
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It took Handel 50 years to get one oratorio into a shape he was happy with and another one just 24 days. I have both on Afternoon Concert
@BBCRadio3
. Fascinating to hear the development. Lots more surprises besides. Why not join me from 2.
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What ‘everyday things surprise you’?That trees grow out of pavements, that air’s still free on low cost airlines? Regina Baiocchi’s piece may inspire your ideas for a suitably surprising playlist on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
. Go on, surprise me by joining me at 9.30.
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“You may have the world if I may have Italy” said Verdi. Italy is our focal point for the sequence you build this morning on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
. The colour, the food, the sunshine, the bureaucracy. The field is yours. Join me from 9.30 for the fun and wonderful music.
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What's your favourite hill? I'm launching my search on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
with one of Percy Grainger's Hill Songs. Ideas please. I also have stunning music by Rachmaninov and a high point in the English choral tradition. Many other gems too, all from 9.
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A novel use of our book - playing a key part in the opening, via video link, of the first Nightingale Hospital. Mm. I knew it’d come in handy.
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Tune in tomorrow morning at 9.30am to find out Peter.
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Do you think that if live classical music concerts ever come back
@BBCRadio3
the coughing to music ratio might be reduced? It could be the start of a wonderful new era...
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This is wonderful news and well deserved for
@BBCRadio3
legend. Congratulations Seany.
🎓 Class of 2023:
Congratulations to
@BBCRadio3
broadcaster Sean Rafferty who has today received an honorary doctorate for services to the arts, music and broadcasting 🎙️
#ProudofUU
#WeAreUU
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Come on, let's get out of the house. Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
dodges the drones to delight in an enchanted forest, Malcolm Arnold has you dance in Cornwall, George Butterworth prefers Shropshire, or how about an all nighter at an Orkney wedding? Join the escape party at 9.
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Had cause to slip into the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace today and caught sight of quite a roll call of alumni.
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If you're queuing for the tip or for flat-packed furniture this morning, while away the 3 hour wait with Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
. Handel lights up the sky with fireworks, Shostakovich entertains with a jazz band and Elgar puts on a royal hat. Much more besides. All from 9.
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Harmony is miked and this is going to be gorgeous.
@TheSixteen
and me in
@wigmore_hall
for a live stream of music full of hope and reflection. The theorbo is ready and It's free to view on the Wigmore Hall website. Join us at 7.30 or anytime for the next month.
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Encased in a glass box within
@bbcworldservice
as our studio gets the heating fixed. The music remains as planned
@BBCRadio3
. Doreen Carwithen sums it up One Damn Thing After Another, Shostakovich is a gadfly and Brahms 3 is in the 3pm spotlight. Join me in my fishbowl from 2
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A golden evening of Spanish Renaissance music from the
@BBCSingers
@BBCRadio3
as it sounded when it took root in Mexico. Peter Philips conducts music he found in Puebla that hasn't been heard for 370 years. Join me for the world premiere at 7.30.
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Back on
@BBCRadio3
today with the afternoon show, so here’s a little behind the scenes of how it works and where I take you. To find out which group is in the spotlight this week -
@BBCSSO
@BBCPhilharmonic
@BBCNOW
@BBCSingers
@BBCSO
@BBCCO
or
@UlsterOrchestra
- join me at 2.
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Thanks for asking John. Today I’m here at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, for the first of a series of concerts with
@BBCNOW
. Recording tonight’s for
@BBCRadio3
later this month; next week we’re live from here. And then stints on Essential Classics in the coming weeks.
@Ianskellyradio3
@PetrocTrelawny
Hi Ian - what is happening with you? Not hearing you on R3? You can find me on WhatsApp. John Stacey. (Verwood, Dorset.)
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I’ve arrived at Salford Quays for today’s edition of Afternoon Concert
@BBCRadio3
. I find the Tardis is quicker than the train.
@RachPodger
and
@BBCPhilharmonic
play Bach, Vivaldi and Hasse during the show. In rehearsal right now. Join me at 2 for plenty more besides.
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I’m with you Jess, speaking, quite literally, as a Lancastrian. To my ear you are a true Cumbrian and it’s a wonderful accent. When I started BBC Radio Lancashire wouldn’t let me on… because I had a Lancashire accent. Funny how “now brown cows” have changed their, er, spots.
I’m extremely proud of where I’m from and my accent isn’t a virus. I love Cumbria (I’m not from Lancashire) and although I work in London, I don’t plan on changing my accent. From a proud Northerner!
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Yes. Some news hits you very hard. We talked of his future when he appeared on
@BBCRadio3
and he was frank and humble. It was deeply moving to meet him. I recommend this reflection by
@sophieraworth
. A very sad day for those many who knew him.
@annaframe
Relish the joyous hour we spent talking about The Burning Land
@NCornBookFest
a few years back. A glorious, wonderful, brilliant man. RIP.
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Morning! Much finger wagging on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
as Haydn's Schoolmaster sets you the task of building a sequence at 10.30. An orchestra from Hong Kong goes tangoing in the night and George Butterworth marvels at cherry blossom. Much more besides, all from 9.
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Don't read too much into this but there's a battle in the air on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
. William Walton's music for the Battle of Britain takes to the wing as my starting point for musical ideas. Maps and fleeing the city are also themes from 9. Mm...
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Anoushka Shankar’s sitar awaits
@ShankarAnoushka
We’re live
@bbcproms
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
at 7.30.
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I appear to have become the captain of a football team on the telly this week. That’ll be a point scorer. Will we get to the semis? Will we get passed go? Find out on Christmas Eve, BBC 2 at 7.30. I may have to hide behind the sofa.
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Well quite John. Never knowingly done it, although I must say my view of what listeners sometimes need changed dramatically when everyone in the world seemed to tune into my ramblings during the lockdown, including many who said they couldn’t stand classical music. Go figure!
It always annoys me to hear continuity announcers on classical radio stations talking about ‘Relaxing sounds’ — as though the purpose of classical music is just to calm you down, instead of exciting you or making you think….
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15 minutes to go here in this magnificent space, the chapel of Kings College Cambridge, and then we’re live
@BBCRadio3
with the
@BBCCO
and
@Philchorus
for Haydn and Mozart, part of Easter at Kings. Join me live at 7.30 for a glorious sound.
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This is exciting!
@BBCRadio3
@BBCArtsPR
@BBCSounds
@DandyJessica
@pianomalk
. Avec an audience we’re live at one.
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We all fall over together on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
. Follow these… er simple steps and let’s see where they take us to build our playlist. Will you, won’t you join the dance? It starts at 9.30.
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Birdsong's been the joy during lockdown, so this morning the stunning song of one bird, celebrated by Monteverdi, launches our collective search for music throughout the morning on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
Hear which bird it is in a mo and join me in the search.
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It's surprising to meet Bartok at South Ken tube station. Meet the man on Essential Classics
@BBCRadio3
who helped him in his last years in New York putting his own music on hold. Dvorak writes from the US too and Vivaldi tries out the electric guitar. All from 9.
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Bravo David, couldn’t agree more. Not only is it brilliantly scored, it opens the doors on all else he wrote. He was WAY ahead of his time, laying the ground for so much that followed: Mars - Star Wars; 2nd mvt of Beni Mora - The Ipcress File, written in 1912! A genius composer.
There is a perverse and lazy snobbery in classical music which seems to want to demean The Planets — because it's descriptive? colourful? popular? It's a magnificent piece of music, gorgeously scored, and I never tire of listening to it.
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Cheers to
@almurray
for hosting the
@BFI
screening of Spike Milligan:The Unseen Archive, airing
@SkyArts
Wednesday. It was a privilege to be there. Very moving moments from Spike's family including
@goonchild4
creating a sensitive, comprehensive portrait of THE comic genius.
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Missing this scene, part of my commute last week. Not quite the same scene today as I head into Broadcasting House for the afternoon show
@BBCRadio3
. Lots of fabulous music though: Borodin, Tchaikovsky and some stunning Bach this afternoon. Join me at 2.
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Back at BH for a new fortnight
@BBCRadio3
@BBCSounds
in the afternoons where the focus is on the music of a land whose first King was called Gorm the Old. Our own old Gorm explains…
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The piano ready for its close up as Kirill Gerstein plays the Schumann piano concerto
@bbcproms
. Beethoven & Mendelssohn add more heroic Romanticism to the party and in the interval I trace where Romanticism has led us. We’re live at 7.30
@BBCRadio3
@bbcsounds
@BBCArtsPR
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An early morning at the Albert Hall for a late
@bbcproms
tonight. The ever stunning
@TheSixteen
fill this vast space with the most beautiful renaissance choral music. It will be a lovely, meditative listen
@BBCRadio3
tonight live with me at 10.15 or
@BBCSounds
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The lifts at Broadcasting House tell what you're listening to. Why not step into the Iift
@BBCRadio3
tomorrow morning. Unusually early for me, I'm there with Breakfast - Bach, Boccherini, Bells in Northants and the Battle of the Sea Hawk. Wake gently to the world with me from 7.
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Great to be back in this wonderfully atmospheric building. We're live tonight at BBC Maida Vale for a showcase of the Oxford Lieder Festival. Join me at 7.30
@BBCRadio3
for some tremendous singing and playing. And all live. Hurrah.
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I love the history of this place. No Bing tonight but at the BBC Maida Vale we're live
@BBCRadio3
@ncfestival
led by
@jonathanbloxham
for American and British music played by the Northern Chords Ensemble & friends - "some enchanted evening," as Bing might say. Join me at 7.30.
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When you’re feeling low, watch a piglet doing his morning exercise. It’s the hat that gets me.
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What's the protocol with shoe shining? I fear they outshone. Hear our conversation
@BBCRadio3
when
@BBCSingers
perform a Ceremony of Carols with
@CatrinFinch
the first Royal Harpist. Hear why he created the role 21 years ago. The music is blissful. Join us, 7.30 Christmas Eve.
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Where he rests, his music will be played. At the lovely St Asaph’s Cathedral with
@BBCNOW
to record the opening concert of the
@nwimf
soon to feature
@BBCRadio3
in Concert. I so need the distraction of beautiful music and such a setting after quite some week!
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This has inspired me to make a list of all the books I don’t want to read.
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