Morning #BBCRadio3 Breakfasters!

Morning #BBCradio3 Breakfasters

JUST ANNOUNCED: @hannahcfrench.bsky.social joins us live to celebrate the 300th anniversary of The Four Seasons. Joined on stage by musicians to perform excerpts, she will explore the rich imagery of each concerto. 🗓 November 5, 7:30 PM 📍Kings Place, London 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-four-s...

Morning #bbcradio3 breakfasters! Proud of myself for setting up the desk this morning. House martins and a finch alongside Bach, Dvorak, and Verdi before 7.

Morning! Memories of #bbcradio3 Beat Beethoven on Breakfast today. Plus Vivaldi, Farrenc, Parry & Bach before 7. Kettle on!

Morning #bbcradio3 breakfasters! Fun stuff in this week’s time capsule studio! Fortunately all the current tech is behind me… Chopin, Mendelssohn, Bach and some Black Guillemots before 7!

Morning #BBCRadio3 Breakfasters! Mozart, Mussorgsky, and Murray Perahia all before 7 and later: Into the Woods… (with or without a whippet)

Morning! #BBCRadio3 Breakfast coming from London this week. It’s Proms Marathon Monday - what have been your favourite Proms so far?

SUMMER! Today’s Early Music Show @bbcradio3 has music for the wilting heat… When the storm breaks you need @erikbosgraaf - to whip up a Vivaldi-style storm but I went it alone though last year in Mantua when the heavens opened- my soggy sonic postcard for you too. #vivaldi #thefourseasons #summer

A musical giant with the tenderest touch, the great pianist Alfred Brendel has sadly died, aged 94. His performances will blaze in memory; his recordings will inspire for generations to come. He received the RPS Gold Medal in 1992, presented by fellow recipient Yehudi Menuhin.

Yep, it happened. Barokksolistene turned the Saturday Morning studio into an Alehouse. #bbcradio3

Back in the Saturday Morning studio at Radio 3 and the stage is set…

Wonderful overview of Orlando Gibbons music by @hannahcfrench.bsky.social in BBC Early Music Show #gibbons400

Well there it was: ORLANDO GIBBONS Early Music Show on @bbcradio3. Would love to say I heard it but after my first day back directing a children’s choir this morning I’ve just slept through it. That’s what @bbcsounds is for… Stacks of great recordings of Gibbons out there! #gibbons400

My guest on Saturday Morning on Radio 3 this morning…

Jeanice, meet Jane! 5pm on @bbcradio3: The Early Music Show makes a rare foray into the nineteenth century today. We go in search of Jane Austen’s musical life in the expert company of @jeanicebrooksmusic from @uni_southampton

Today’s the day! We’re so looking forward to tonight’s sold-out 20th Anniversary Gala Concert @wigmore-hall.org.uk with the wonderful Hannah French 🎉🍾 You can catch the live stream of the concert via the Wigmore website, which will be available for 90 days. Time to celebrate! 🎊

The Early Music Show last week was a dive back into last year’s London Festival of Early Music, you can catch that on bbc sounds. And today the all star American groups Quicksilver play music connected to the C18 court of Vienna. 5pm on Radio 3

Apologies for the radio silence on here, I’ve been off having some major surgery to reconstruct my hip. As you can see I’ve had an excellent nurse, and yesterday made it to the garden for some extra vitamin D. It’s a v slow recovery process but gradually returning to airwaves…

Absolutely banging #EarlyMusicShow on BBCR3 earlier today. Well worth a replay on BBCSounds. @hannahcfrench.bsky.social

Wigmore Hall's Director John Gilhooly introduces our 125th Anniversary Season. Read more here: www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classi...

The Singing Whippet. She loves Bach before 7…

Morning! This is your very serious @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Breakfast team all set to start your day with Hildegard. Fairies in the gloaming and Bach’s morning star also lined up first thing. Kettle on!

Bonjour! Starting the week with Hildegard, I’m in for Petroc today and tomorrow with producer @barnaby-gordon.bsky.social Let us know if there’s anything you’d like to hear!

My lunch. And scenes from the springtime of Vivaldi’s life in Venice. All of these feature alongside the recordings of @laserenissimauk.bsky.social and the magnificent mind of Adrian Chandler on today’s Radio 3 Early Music Show. SPRING! It’s on air now and on @bbcsounds.bsky.social

Adrian’s on BBC Radio 3 this afternoon, chatting to @hannahcfrench.bsky.social all about Vivaldi’s Spring from The Four Seasons 🌷 Catch The Early Music Show from 5pm 🎧 Birdsong, thunderstorms, sleepy shepherds... ever wondered what Spring is really about? Adrian spills the tea (baroque-style).

Sound the bell for the Early Music Show on Radio 3. Actually two shows: last week was lots of fun talking Palestrina with @stileantico.co.uk and this week it’s Tielman Susato, though not in person… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@hannahcfrench.bsky.social with members of Stile Antico presented wonderful music on the recent Early Music Show celebrating the birth of Palestrina www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

For International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting composers Sarah Lianne Lewis and Katherine Balch, both composition Award-winners at the RPS Awards last week! Here’s music that is bold, inventive and thoughtful, with so much to discover and enjoy. #IWD2025

Start the IWD celebrations early with our #IWD2025 Playlist🌷 Featuring artists from across Edition Peters, Faber Composers, Faber Alt., and Manners McDade, this is a joyful, genre-crossing celebration of women's voices. 🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/35R...

There are a few days left to apply for the RPS Isserlis Scholarship to study abroad! We support musicians to fulfil a course at an international music school or university, or study with a specialist based overseas. Apply by 11am on Tues 11 March. royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/performers/s...

Welling up reading the results of the @royalphilsoc.bsky.social Awards from last night. So wish I could've been there to celebrate in person.

Tea and trousers in tune with the carpet at @wigmore-hall.org.uk

In Venice (Torcello) last November making the postcard for today’s edition of #TheEarlyMusicShow on @bbcradio3. The first in a year-long series on Vivaldi’s #TheFourSeasons: WINTER. Inc a v special interview & new release from Daniel Pioro with poetry from Michael Morpurgo. On air now & @bbcsounds

Happy World Radio Day 📻 As we celebrate the power of radio in transporting messages and music around the world, we'd like to share this image from the Christopher Jonas CBE photography exhibition of a presenter's desk set-up for one of our BBC Radio 3 broadcasts 🎙

Exciting times ahead for me and Antonio... coming later this year, an invitation to spend four seasons with us! Thanks @faberbooks.bsky.social for making this dream a reality!

The Early Music Show @hannahcfrench.bsky.social talks to Sir Simon Rattle on his 70th birthday about his knowledge and passion for early music, given his long association w/ Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Recorder player Lucie Horsch talks about her recent work on the Frans Brüggen Project

This weekend is your last chance to vote for the RPS Inspiration Award! You can find out more about the shortlistees, and cast your vote before 11am on Monday 3 February, on our website. #RPSAwards royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/rps_m...

The premiere of Stephen Hough’s 'Nocturne (September 10, 2001)' played by Elisabeth Brauss today at 11 on #BBCRadio3. Stephen says: ‘It's a piece both calm & restless, unaware of the momentous events due to unfold only hours later. I was in New York on those days when the world changed.’ #25for25

In for Tom Service on @bbcradio3 Saturday Morning today. Gorgeous show lined up with interviews from Stephen Hough, Maria Duenas, Arni Heimir Ingolfsson, new releases from Il Pomo dOro & L’arpeggiata and LOADS MORE! #fancystudio

Hello Blusky! Things to expect round here: tales of #BBCRadio3 broadcasting esp #TheEarlyMusicShow; Whippet chat; adventures on wheels with wonky hips #EDS; wall to wall Vivaldi (book on the way); my quest for the perfect mocktail; words, words, words, (still Vivaldi); & did I mention the whippet?