BBC Radio 3 has revealed the highlights of its schedule for Autumn 2022, together with a collection of programmes marking 100 years of BBC radio broadcasts.
In recognition of the BBC’s centenary yr (the primary BBC broadcast befell in November 1922), Radio 3 will current a number of extraordinary music from throughout the UK – and all over the world.
The season will embrace stay broadcasts from the Venice Music Biennale, the twentieth Ivors Composer Awards, the EFG London Jazz Competition and Edinburgh Worldwide Competition. There can even be highway journeys round Northern Eire with Music Issues, plus performances from Huddersfield Up to date Music Competition, Lammermuir Competition, Oxford Lieder Competition and the West Cork Chamber Music Competition. Radio 3 in Live performance, in the meantime, might be broadcast stay from cities throughout the UK, highlighting the perfect of the season’s classical, jazz and modern music.
Highlights of the season will embrace:
- BBC 100 – Radio 3’s Soundscape of a Century. This celebration of the BBC’s centenary yr will encompass an eight-hour steady broadcast, interspersing classical music with specifically curated BBC archive materials
- A continuation of Vaughan Williams Right this moment, the station’s celebrations for the composer’s one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. The season continues with particular editions of Composer of the Week, Early Music Present, Radio 3 Lunchtime Live performance, Report Overview, Sound of Cinema, The Listening Service and extra
- A brand new collection introduced by acclaimed Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds. In Final Calm, the award-winning multi-instrumentalist will discover how classical, modern and ambient music can soothe the soul. Exploring themes corresponding to nature, cinema and sleep, the collection will function sounds from electronica duo Odesza, musician and producer Jon Hopkins, composer and pianist Isobel Waller-Bridge and others
- A bumper programme of stay music, with performances from all corners of the UK and past
- A brand new adaptation of Three Ladies, Sylvia Plath’s not often carried out poem for 3 voices, to rejoice the poet’s ninetieth anniversary
- The Sonic Century, a four-part collection exploring the historical past and key figures of radio broadcasting
- For Music Issues, Tom Service might be in dialog with American composer John Adams, and with the famend French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque
- Broadcasts of performances from Lammermuir and Dartington Festivals, plus the BBC’s personal orchestras and choirs and all of the UK’s main symphony orchestras
‘After a incredible BBC Proms season, Radio 3 will get again to presenting the perfect of stay music from across the nation in its autumn season,’ says BBC Radio 3 Controller Alan Davey. ‘We’re bringing a spread of wonderful and galvanizing live shows from a number of the UK’s greatest festivals and venues, plus new music from the Venice Biennale and nice performances from our New Technology Artists – offering a method in to experiencing nice performances of nice music for anybody who desires it.’
Pic of Ólafur Arnalds by Anna Maggi
