Performing Miracles
Enjoy a selection of the very best music and performances from Radio 3's live concerts.
Music between tears and smiles...
Aldeburgh encore – Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs Schubert's Ländler D.366 No.10.
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How to turn "a group of Benedictine monks playing football" into music...
Poulenc's Gloria, conducted by James MacMillan in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
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Like a puppet on a string...
Stravinsky's Petrushka. With the CBSO conducted by Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.
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'I'm a heavy metal fan and I love this...'
Gerald Finzi's Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice. With the Temple Church Choir.
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Squawk! Birds and animals teach a foundling baby girl how to sing...
From No.42 'In the Alps' by Richard Ayres. With Mary Bevan (soprano).
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Another fine set of variations...
Maurice Duruflé's Choral varié on 'Veni Creator'. With Mark Swinton (organ).
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"Knuckle-cracking virtuosity"...
... is demanded by Giles Farnaby's Woody-Cock: harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani delivers.
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Remembering Jiří
Smetana's Bartered Bride Overture with the BBC SO conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek
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Strictly waltzing...
"One-two-three, one-two-three"... Glazunov's Concert Waltz No.1.
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You can't beat a brilliant set of variations
Mozart's 10 Variations on 'Unser dummer Pöbel meint', with Federico Colli (piano).
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Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow...
Milton's words and Parry's music combine with affecting splendour in Blest Pair of Sirens
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Scottish folk-tunes get the virtuoso violin treatment
Bruch's Scottish Fantasy with Jack Liebeck (violin).
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8 minutes of heart-wrenching yet consoling Dvořák
The Elias String Quartet play Dvořák live on In Tune.
Delightful music by the woman who made the Doctor Who theme a worldwide phenomenon
Mattachin – a medieval-style pavane by BBC Radiophonic Workshop wizard Delia Derbyshire.
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Hector Berlioz creates a nightmare vista of witches, ghouls and spectres in Symphonie Fantastique
Berlioz charts the spiral of his protagonist into madness in his Symphonie Fantastique
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Perfect peace: the beautiful Largo from Dvořák's New World Symphony
Take a few minutes back with the wonderful slow movement of Dvořák's Symphony No 9.
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Get carried away on ocean currents...
Ravel's Une barque sur l'ocean, from Miroirs. With Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano).
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Famously erotic...
Debussy's Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune.
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Mulet: Carillon-Sortie
With David Dunnett at the organ of Norwich Cathedral. From Choral Evensong.
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S S Wesley: Blessed be the God and Father
With the Choir of Norwich Cathedral conducted by Ashley Grote. From Choral Evensong.
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Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony (Finale)
With Jonathan Scott (organ) and the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier.
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Forests and Gardens: Songs by Gurney, Howells and Stanford
With Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano) and Joseph Middleton (piano).
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John Harbison: Remembering Gatsby (foxtrot)
With the BBC Philharmonic conducted by James Feddeck.
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Debussy: Violin Sonata
With Laura Samuel (violin) and Alasdair Beatson (piano).
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