Me and the estimable Tom Service in the ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ studio just now, perusing the illustration of us in ⁦BBC Proms⁩ guide, where we disagree agreeably about Bruckner

We have something really wild in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's Tiger Tango from Robert Keane's
Save the Animals Suite. Where next? More tigers? Other animals taking to the dancefloor?

Good morning from this weirdly angled spot! Join us BBC Radio 3 for The Ride of the Valkyries to start, Walton’s Spitfire Prelude & Fugue, Pavarotti sings Verdi’s La Donna e mobile & Robert Keane’s Tiger 🐅 Tango from his Save the Animals Suite in the Playlister. Happy Friday 📻

In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 it's the Overture from Albeniz's comic opera The Magic Opal. It's about a ring with the power to provoke immediate infatuation. There are pirates, ghosts, impossible love on the shores of Karatol. Where next?

Morning from the escalator! Join us ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ @ 9.30 for Dance of the Tumbler’s from Snow Maiden, Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, Albeniz’s The Magic Opal in the Playlister & Schubert’s Du bist die Ruh @ 10.30. Grab a ☕️ & join us 📻❤️

Richly deserved. This team - and this very suave presenter - work so hard and care so much. Sending massive ❤️ to you all 🏆

We've come over all poetic in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's by our very own Michael Berkeley
'The Wakeful Poet' from 'Music From Chaucer'. Many will know this as the Private Passions sig tune - tell us where next! Here's Chaucer as he actually was, and as played by Paul Bettany

Morning! Join us BBC Radio 3 for Lezginka from Gayaneh, Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, a Battalia by Biber. Our Playlister is by Michael Berkeley & you’ll recognise it from Private Passions, The Wakeful Poet from Music From Chaucer & Part’s Spiegel im Spiegel @ 10.10 📻

The temperature is shooting upwards in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's Florence Price's Tropical Noon from her Dances in the Canebrakes. A canebrake is a thicket of tall cane plants that grows at the marshy edge of a stream or lake, common in the Deep South. Where next?

Morning! It’s grey outside so here’s a cat called Nancy & a horse called Annie. Join us BBC Radio 3 @ 9.30 for Milhaud’s Scaramouche to start, Grieg’s Air from Holberg Suite, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances & Florence Price’s Tropical Noon in the Playlister ☕️📻 🎶

We're in one of the most picturesque regions of the UK in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's the Scherzo from Holst's Cotswold Symphony. Holst was organist and choirmaster at Wyck Rissington &conducted the choral society at Bourton-on-the-Water. Where next?

Morning! Join us ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ @ 9.30 for 🍍 Poll to start, Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus, Holst’s Cotswolds Symphony in the Playlister - conducted by the late Sir Andrew Davis, Torke’s Javelin for Orchestra & Veronique Gens sings Faure @ 10.30 📻☕️

Been back at my parents today & my mother has kept the hilarious programme from my 1998 school production of Pirates of Penzance & from my great friend Day’s Footlights show Tim Key Mark Watson Sophie Winkleman. Whatta show that was

Morning! Behold! I was part of a winning quiz team last night! Join us ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ for more triumphant joy: Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty waltz, Verdi’s Force of Destiny Overture, Caroline Saw’s ‘And the swallow’ in the Playlister & a foxtrot with Shostakovich 🏆📻☕️

Things are miraculously...fishy in the Playlister BBC Radio 3 It's Cecilia McDowall's 'A Draught of Fishes', inspired by the New Testament story of Jesus suggesting to his disciples they would net more fish from the other side of the boat. Where next?

Morning! It’s ☀️ at BH! I have found a weird booth to blend into…Join us BBC Radio 3 for Mozart’s Music Joke, a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dance by Malcolm Arnold, Cecilia McDowall’s A Draught of Fishes 🐟 is in the Playlister & Blessed is the Man from Rachmaninov’s Vespers. Grab a ☕️ & join us 📻

I'll be playing more from this excellent record which is my Album of the Week just after 12.30 - stay tuned for beautifully played tango BBC Radio 3 Thanks so much to London Tango Quintet

Amazing owl pics from listener Brian - know knows how to take a decent photo...

In the Playlister BBC Radio 3 it's Janacek's The Little Owl has not Flown Away (from On an Overgrown Path). Janacek said these piano pieces: 'contain distant reminiscences.' In Czech folklore owls are birds of ill omen, so perhaps this reminiscence isn't a happy one...Where to?

Morning! Please enjoy these cheering spring 🌺 Join us ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ @ 9.30 for Gluck’s Dance of the Blessed Spirits, Palestrina’s Jubilate Deo Omnis Terra, Janacek’s The Little 🦉 has not flown away is in the Playlister & Lemminkainen will return @ 10.35 📻 ☕️❤️