Lots of love for Hely-Hutchinson’s ‘Carol Symphony’ this week on BBC Radio 3, & especially its link to Masefield’s ‘Box of Delights’ on TV & radio. 1943 is the earliest I can find but here’s the listing from Children’s Hr in 1955. Final movt this afternoon from 2!

Rehearsal underway at The Bridgewater Hall with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and @McrChamberChoir for Bach’s St John Passion live on BBC Radio 3 today - join me for this profound Good Friday masterpiece in Afternoon Concert from 2pm.

Producer Mike all set in the truck for our BBC Radio 3 Bach's St John Passion - live on Afternoon Concert. Nicholas Kraemer conducts with @McrChamberChoir and all star cast of soloists: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

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Listen this Sunday on BBC Radio 3 to a special programme on Jesus' Blood. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… "The story of an old man's voice on a discarded spool of tape and Gavin Bryars' iconic composition Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet." April 14th 19:15.

A brace (?) of double-basses awaiting Shostakovich 5 in part 2 of tonight’s Royal Liverpool Philharmonic concert - world premiere of the Piano Concerto by Eleanor Alberga w/Alim Beisembayev as well. Don’t miss on BBC Radio 3 next month!

Delighted to be able to share the cover of my new novel. The first in a new series of black comedy crime stories set in #belfast during #thetroubles. #crimefiction SpellBound Books

You’ll definitely be hearing THESE tonight when @bbcnow and Crouch End Festival Chorus perform Verdi’s Requiem BBC Proms live on BBC Radio 3, almost 150 years since it was conducted at this very Hall by Verdi himself. Ryan Bancroft conducts, from 7pm - join us!

Being part of the vocal team for this course has been revelatory on a personal level. If you can get to Ely tomorrow, then you need to be there. 200 state school pupils absolutely *nailing* the Verdi Req! #verdiroarquiem

A London Symphony by Vaughan Williams has had over 30 BBC Proms performances since its Proms debut in 1923 - hear it live tonight on BBC Radio 3 from the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and Martyn Brabbins with Holst, Elgar & Stanford too. Be here from 7:30!

Handelians Assemble! Messiah crowns our BBC Proms Choral Day on BBC Radio 3 with John Butt conducting ASMF Orchestra and 6 - count ‘em - choirs plus star soloists, in Mozart’s glorious arrangement. Raise the RAH roof and sing along live from 7pm.

Sir Bryn Terfel on spellbinding form tonight in Walton’s ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’ - plus Ning Feng in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto & Anna Meredith’s propulsive ‘Nautilus’. Join Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for a rousing BBC Radio 3 In Concert from 7:30

Your 20 minute call for zesty orchestral masterpieces from Kodaly, Bartok & Dvorak - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with violinist Michael Barenboim and Domingo Hindoyan conducting. Join us on BBC Radio 3 at 7:30!

On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pierre Boulez, the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus play works by composers central to his conducting repertoire - Debussy, Schoenberg & Stravinsky. Join us on BBC Radio 3 for the 2nd of 2 Monte Carlo concerts, from 7:30

Very big bells! Percussionist Graham Johns will be playing these Forever Bells in Henry Wood’s version of Pictures at an Exhibition, the spectacular finish to R3 In Concert tonight with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Andrew Manze - tune in to BBC Radio 3 from 7:30 🔔🔔