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Introduced by Ian Skelly, a week of live Radio 3 Lunchtime concerts (Tuesday 12 to
Friday 15 July) spotlights New Generation Artists, with mezzo-soprano Helen
Charlston (mezzo soprano); pianists Kunal Lahiry, Tom Borrow and Alexander
Gadjiev; Johan Dalene (violin) and the Quatuor Arod in repertoire from the Baroque
to contemporary, including works by Purcell, Brahms, Britten, Mahler, Messiaen,
Weir, Ravel, Copland, Boulanger, and Stravinsky among others.

York Early Music Festival

BBC Radio 3 In Concert presents The Sixteen with Harry Christophers, in a special
exploration of choral repertoire Choral Pilgrimage 2022: Author Of Light (Tuesday 12
July); and a live broadcast of Gabrieli’s A Venetian Coronation by Gabrieli Consort &
Players led by Paul McCreesh (Wednesday 13 July).

This Classical Life at UK Festivals

Saxophonist and broadcaster Jess Gillam takes her award-winning Radio 3
programme This Classical Life - where she is joined by other musicians to discuss
and suggest their favourite tracks from across the musical spectrum - on the road to
UK festivals for the first time. She will be sitting down for a listening party with festival
audiences to chat about the music they love most from any era, genre or style.

At a special edition recorded at Hay Festival on 30 May, her guest is acclaimed
trumpeter Alison Balsom (broadcast on Saturday 4 June); and at Latitude Festival on
24 July the show will be staged at The Listening Post with a live audience of festival
goers (broadcast on Saturday 30 July).

The Spring schedule also includes two This Classical Life: Live events, where Jess
Gillam brings her show to life with two concerts featuring a host of musical stars at
The Old Woollen in Leeds on 25 May with the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Ellie
Slorach. Guests include pianist and composer Belle Chen, and multi-instrumentalist
and composer Erland Cooper. Broadcast on Radio 3 In Concert, Wednesday 5 July.

The second is at Alexandra Palace Theatre in London on 21 June, with the BBC
Concert Orchestra and conductor Jonathan Bloxham (guests include: trumpeter and
former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Simon Höfele; soprano Ella Taylor; and
award-winning composer, arranger and saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi speaking to
Gillam on-stage, and the BBC Concert Orchestra performing one of Cassie’s
orchestral pieces. Broadcast on Radio 3 In Concert, Sunday 10 July.

WOMAD

BBC Radio 3 celebrates WOMAD At 40 with a weekend of special broadcasts,
including performances by some of the headline acts, introduced by Lopa Kothari
(Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 July). Details will be announced in due course.

Edinburgh International Festival: live weekday broadcasts (Monday 8 to Friday 26
August) in a special EIF slot, feature performances by some of the best-known
names on the classical music scene, such as mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter;
Chineke! Chamber Ensemble; Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble with Yannick Nézet-