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The @bbcproms 2026: ✅
Thank you to every musician, everyone behind the scenes, our @RoyalAlbertHall colleagues and my amazing Proms and @BBCRadio3 team: the unsung heroes of this festival.
In a world often defined by division, music brings us together like nothing else 🎶
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Endless pleasure, endless love - a passionate affair with Jupiter ends badly in Handel's Semele, premiered at Covent Garden👇1744. The Handel revival has brought us very different recordings, which ones deserve to accompany you where e'er you walk? Find out from 3pm @BBCRadio3
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It’s always worth reading @matt’s quarterly RAJAR analysis. Really pleased to see these observations about @BBCRadio3’s success. Full article: onaudio.mattdeegan.com/p/raj…
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A happy day at @BBCRadio3! Very grateful to @MusicWeek for the coverage: musicweek.com/media/read/bbc…
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The loss of Stephen Kovacevich. He was always keen to tell me he was a regular listener and I had the great privilege of hosting his last ever appearance @BBCRadio3 talking to him and Martha Argerich @wigmore_hall about their years together on stage. RIP to a great performer.
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Why do politicians think the arts are dispensable?, asks Lyn Gardner 👇 thestage.co.uk/opinion/why-d…
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As a member of the legendary Monty Python group Eric Idle helped redefine British comedy while his Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is a regular at funerals.
Eric will play works by Elgar, Haydn and Dvorak on Private Passions at noon @BBCRadio3 .
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If you're in need of some uplift... The Malago is a small, overlooked river in Bristol. But now, a group of locals have come together to write songs for it. Songs with stories to tell. Songs for the Malago 19.00 Sun 25 Oct @BBCRadio3 Producer @Becky_Ripley bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00330k…
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Lots to enjoy @BBCRadio3 on this wet and windy weekend, including a very special edition of Private Passions with @MichaelBerkele2 — who'll be discovering all about Eric Idle's love of Elgar, Haydn and more. Midday Sunday or any time via @BBCSounds: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00330j…
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“While we may have a guitar playing PM who displays Smiths records in his office and gives off BBC 6 Music dad vibes, at a time of economic uncertainty we cannot rely on good will to secure the future of music at the BBC." - UK Music Chief @Tomkiehl
tinyurl.com/3fyn4vep
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@Danielledeniese along with Willard White @leonbosch
@mapleivory Reginald Mobley, Linton Stephens all master classical music performers and people of colour too! What has life on stage been like for them? Outside In, @BBCRadio3, tomorrow at 3pm @BBCSounds Produced by Rosie Bolton
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This Symphony May Contain Hope, live at the @RoyalAlbertHall. What an utterly glorious, musically joyful and artistically powerful evening with freshly crowned @MercuryPrize winner @raye, alongside the wonderful @heritageorch and @Flames_VC.
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A joy to escape the rain this lunchtime and adjudicate the @RAFMusic Annual Soloist Competition at the @salvationarmyuk Regent Hall. An incredible standard of musicianship, and a very worthy winner in clarinettist Robbie Marrs 👏 👏
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Made it to the utterly glorious Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, don’t miss our journey around this spectacular place on @BBCRadio3 from 9.30 tomorrow morning, and look who I found! 🦌
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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has revealed the four cities still in the running to win the title of UK City of Culture 2029 and a £10 million prize. artsprofessional.co.uk/news/…
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RNCM secures £400,000 investment to support emerging musicians - Gramophone gramophone.co.uk/content/cla…
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What a night in Westminster for the star-studded launch of our Our BBC: Our Music campaign! A huge thank you to all who came out to back our call on government to protect music at the BBC.
Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/3fyn4vep
Photo gallery: tinyurl.com/yspeveuy
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Incredible performances in Parliament for the star-studded launch of our 'Our BBC: Our Music' campaign. Thank you to @The_Anchoress, @imogen_theknife and @ShekuKM for their phenomenal sets.
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'Without the BBC, the music we love is at risk'. In a piece for @RollingStoneUK UK Music Chief Executive @Tomkiehl has highlighted the vital need to protect music at the BBC as its future funding comes under review.
Read Tom's piece in full here: tinyurl.com/4pwucscm
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