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84-518: It exhibits well-known artists usually performing one song of their own and one by another artist, in an acoustic format. The Live Lounge itself is also a physical room in the Radio 1 studios, from where some of the performances are broadcast; however, due to its size, many are done from the BBC Maida Vale Studios . From 2009, Trevor Nelson began hosting Live Lounges on his BBC Radio 1Xtra show, and

168-497: A Wallace and Gromit prom in 2012. These particular concerts were introduced by Wright, who became Proms Director in addition to his duties at Radio 3 in October 2007, and many were also televised for broadcast at a later date. The mix in these proms of classical music to combine with music of a classical nature from the programmes was hoped to introduce a much younger audience to the genres catered for by Radio 3. As of 2014 Radio 3

252-531: A Peel session was Skimmer, at Maida Vale Studios on 21 October 2004. Robin Dallaway of The Cravats remarked that recording at Maida Vale was like stepping back into the 1940s: "blokes in brown stockmen's coats scurried around fixing stuff and plugging our gear in." When Broadcast made their Peel sessions, Trish Keenan wrote "There was a sense of initiation on entering the Maida Vale studios. ... we wandered through

336-496: A filmed series of concerts that was available to watch live and on demand for seven days "in high quality vision". This strategy was also introduced to some of the BBC Proms concerts. By the latter years of the 2000s, Radio 3's prospects were improving. The year 2008/9 saw the introduction of more concerts and other innovations had introduced Radio 3's largest event to a wider audience. The introduction of family orientated concerts to

420-420: A higher profile as were programmes presented by Brian Kay , focusing on light music, and Andy Kershaw , whose show was previously dropped by Radio 1. In these changes, Wright believed that, in the case of the former, he was addressing "this feeling people had that they didn't want to put Radio 3 on unless they were going to listen carefully" and in the latter cases that he was "not dumbing down but smarting up"

504-469: A mix of live and recorded classical and jazz music, interviews with musicians, and arts news. The show is noted for its relaxed, convivial style of presentation. Jazz Record Requests was the first weekly jazz programme on the Third Programme. First presented by the jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton , the 30-minute programme was launched on 12 December 1964 and is still running. Now an hour long, it

588-401: A new outlet. Most of the artists were relatively unknown even to Peel's listeners: he and his producer would often invite bands on the strength of a rough demo tape or gig to hear what they could do, and for many of the bands it was their first experience of a professional recording studio, not to mention a much-needed boost to their finances. The format became standardised as a single session in

672-526: A policy document entitled Broadcasting in the Seventies . Later described in 2002 by Jenny Abramsky , Head of Radio and Music, as "the most controversial document ever produced by radio", the document outlined each station's target audience and what content should be broadcast on each channel. This concept went against the earlier methods laid out by the BBC's first Director General John Reith and caused controversy at

756-450: A recorded service from choral foundations abroad. Choral Evensong is the BBC's longest-running outside broadcast programme, the first edition having been relayed from Westminster Abbey on 7 October 1926. Its 80th anniversary was celebrated, also live from Westminster Abbey, with a service on 11 October 2006. When Choral Evensong was moved from Radio 4 to Radio 3 with effect from 8 April 1970 and reduced to just one broadcast per month,

840-460: A subsidiary of Cooking Vinyl , has a policy of releasing material from various radio stations. Radiohead recorded their 2011 live video The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement at Maida Vale. 51°31′33″N 0°11′25″W  /  51.5258°N 0.1904°W  / 51.5258; -0.1904 BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station owned and operated by

924-722: Is also the home of the BBC Elstree Concert Band. The Radio 3 Jazz Line Up sessions were recorded here. In October 1996, George Michael recorded a rehearsal for, what would be days later, his hit MTV Unplugged performance. In 1994, the Beatles' album Live at the BBC was released, with most of the material having been recorded at Maida Vale. Several other albums, sometimes named after the studios, were recorded in studio MV4. Van der Graaf Generator released an album called Maida Vale in 1994. Portions of October 1990 and September 1991 sessions by Nirvana were released in 2004 on

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1008-471: Is for the BBC's live music base to be relocated in Stratford , east London. It plans to move staff to a new development in Stratford by 2025. The decision drew criticism from Geoff Barrow of Portishead and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich . The COVID-19 outbreak led to the BBC closing the building temporarily, with effect from 27 March 2020. The building has since been re-opened. On 5 May 2020,

1092-516: Is used for outside broadcasts running through a telephone line. This runs at a sample rate of 14,000 per second per channel. A similar technique was later used for recording at the same rate. In September 2010, for the final week of the Proms broadcasts, the BBC trialled XHQ (Extra High Quality), a live Internet stream transmitted at a rate of 320 kbit /s, instead of Radio 3's usual 192 kbit/s, using its AAC-LC 'Coyopa' coding technology. This technology

1176-638: The BBC . It replaced the BBC Third Programme in 1967 and broadcasts classical music and opera , with jazz , world music , drama , culture and the arts also featuring. The station has described itself as "the world's most significant commissioner of new music". Through its New Generation Artists scheme promotes young musicians of all nationalities. The station broadcasts the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by

1260-587: The BBC Orchestras and Singers . There are regular productions of both classic plays and newly commissioned drama. Radio 3 won the Sony Radio Academy UK Station of the Year Gold Award for 2009 and was nominated again in 2011. According to RAJAR , the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 1.9 million with a listening share of 1.6% as of March 2024. Radio 3 is the successor station to

1344-434: The BBC Proms , which are broadcast live on Radio 3, helped the station to introduce itself to a younger audience. Innovations of this type began in 2008 with the introduction of a concert celebrating the music from the television programme Doctor Who as composed by Murray Gold and was later followed by a further Doctor Who prom in 2010, a free family prom in 2009, another free Horrible Histories prom in 2011 and

1428-647: The BBC Wireless Orchestra to perform music. Television transmission began in 1947 and today, selected concerts are also simulcast on BBC Four . Promenade concerts are centred on the Royal Albert Hall with broadcasts from other venues around the UK. Radio 3 in Concert (originally Live in Concert ) is a weeknight programme, broadcast between 7:30 and 10   pm, with recorded concerts from various venues around

1512-764: The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City . The annual BBC Proms concerts are broadcast live each summer on Radio 3. Broadcasting the Proms began in 1927, when the Third Programme transmitted the Thirty-Second Season of the Promenade Concerts live from the Queen's Hall , conducted by Sir Henry Wood . The BBC's involvement with the Proms led to the creation of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and

1596-478: The Minimalists among others. On 2 August 2013, in honour of the station's 70th year, listeners were asked to nominate a composer who had never before been featured for a special broadcast at Christmas. The composer listeners chose was Louise Farrenc . The programme is written and presented by either Donald Macleod or Kate Molleson. Two programs formerly showcased live or recorded performances from venues across

1680-683: The Royal Albert Hall , the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall which can be used to record and broadcast performances at these London venues. Radio 3 is broadcast on the FM band between 90.2 and 92.6 MHz , on DAB Digital Radio , the digital television services Freeview , Freesat , Sky , Virgin Media , TalkTalk TV and Virgin Media Ireland and on BBC Sounds both online and on

1764-604: The Third Programme which began broadcasting on 29 September 1946. The name Radio 3 was adopted on 30 September 1967 when the BBC launched its first pop music station, Radio 1 and rebranded its national radio channels as Radio 1, Radio 2 (formerly the Light Programme ), Radio 3, and Radio 4 (formerly the Home Service ). Radio 3 was the overall label applied to the collection of services which had until then gone under

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1848-427: The reunification of Germany in 1990, and a much praised weekend of programming that was broadcast from London and Minneapolis-St Paul – creating broadcasting history by being the first time a whole weekend had been transmitted "live from another continent". However, Drummond complained about the former that "not one single senior person in the BBC had listened to any part of it", reflecting his general feeling that

1932-498: The skating rink to a shell, then rebuilt it. The arches at the doorway were preserved. It was one of the BBC's earliest premises, and was the centre of the BBC News operation during World War II . It has been the home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 1934, where the orchestra has given invitation concerts, usually free. As a schoolboy, conductor Vernon Handley learned some of his technique by watching Sir Adrian Boult conduct

2016-568: The 1950s, it was frequently broadcasting concerts from this venue, including the first broadcast performance of Carl Orff 's Carmina Burana , given by the resident orchestra with the Goldsmiths Choral Union and soloists. Some premieres of British classical music were recorded in studio MV1, including works by Robert Simpson , Arnold Bax , Nicholas Maw , Alan Rawsthorne and Sir Arthur Bliss . Many of them later became available on vinyl or CD. Olivier Messiaen 's Turangalîla-Symphonie

2100-657: The Age , jazz showcase Impressions , vocal music programme Voices and the arts programme Night Waves . BBC Radio 3 began nighttime transmissions in May 1996 with the introduction of Through the Night , consisting of radio recordings from members of the European Broadcasting Union and distributed to some of these other stations under the title Euroclassic Notturno since 1998. The introduction of 24-hour broadcasting resulted in

2184-590: The BBC Symphony Orchestra here. Studio MV1 has room for an orchestra of over 150 musicians and an audience of over 200. An unusual feature of these concerts is that they were often recorded, which means that in later years the orchestra was sometimes able to do re-takes. It is the largest classical music studio in London. The BBC Third Programme (which became BBC Radio 3 in 1967) was created in September 1946. By

2268-568: The BBC Trust has ruled out any classical music podcasts with extracts longer than one minute. In 2007, Radio 3 also began to experiment with a visual broadcast as well as the audio transmissions. In October 2007, Radio 3 collaborated with the English National Opera in presenting a live video stream of a performance of Carmen , "the first time a UK opera house has offered a complete production online" and in September 2008, Radio 3 launched

2352-480: The BBC received 2,500 letters of complaint, and weekly transmissions were resumed on 1 July. In 2007 the live broadcast was switched to Sundays, which again caused protests. The live transmission was returned to Wednesdays in September 2008, with a recorded repeat on Sunday afternoons at approximately the same time. Choral Evensong forms part of Radio 3's remit on religious programming though non-religious listeners have campaigned for its retention. Composer of

2436-461: The BBC senior management paid little attention stating: "I can't remember ever having a serious conversation with anyone above me in the BBC about Radio 3 ... I would much rather have had the feeling that they thought it mattered what Radio 3 did." Drummond's successor was Nicholas Kenyon , previously chief music critic of The Observer , who took over in February 1992 and was immediately faced with

2520-443: The BBC, the sessions increasingly centred on Maida Vale 4. Music sessions were once a mainstay of BBC Radio programming, as there were strict limits on the amount of commercially recorded music that could be aired, known as needle-time restrictions, so the BBC regularly booked musicians to record music exclusively for broadcast. In the early 1960s, when the BBC began to give some limited coverage of pop groups such as The Beatles , it

2604-506: The Proms. The first controller, Newby, made little contribution to the station, focusing on the transition from the Third programme to Radio 3 and as a result of the Broadcasting in the Seventies report. The second controller, Stephen Hearst who assumed the role in 1972, was different. As Hearst had previously been head of television arts features his appointment was seen with scepticism among

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2688-698: The UK" and as a result, the report did agree to reinvest in the Proms, to retain the long dramas found on the station and to continue to broadcast a new concert live each evening. The current controller of Radio 3 is Sam Jackson, who replaced Alan Davey in April 2023. BBC Radio 3 broadcasts from studios inside the 1930s wing of Broadcasting House in central London . However, in addition to these studios, certain programmes and performances are broadcast from other BBC bases including from BBC Cymru Wales ' Cardiff headquarters and BBC North 's headquarters at MediaCityUK , Salford. The BBC also has recording facilities at

2772-600: The Week was launched in the BBC Home Service on 2 August 1943 under its original title of This Week's Composer . From 15 December 1964 the programme became a regular feature in the schedule of the newly established daytime "Third Network" classical music service, the Music Programme (later to be absorbed into Radio 3). The programme was renamed Composer of the Week on 18 January 1988. Each week, in five daily programmes,

2856-457: The anniversaries of famous figures including William Glock , Michael Tippett and Isaiah Berlin . Drummond also introduced the show Mixing It which targeted the music genres that fell between Radios 1 and 3, often seen as a precursor to the programme Late Junction . During Drummond's time, Radio 3 also began to experiment with outside broadcasts, including an ambitious Berlin Weekend to mark

2940-400: The app, where Radio 3 programmes can be listened back to. On its FM frequencies, the station uses less dynamic range compression of the volume of music than rival station Classic FM . On DAB it uses dynamic range control (DRC) which allows compression to be defined by the user. The station also uses a BBC-designed pulse-code modulation digitisation technique similar to NICAM , which

3024-545: The backing of Sir Adrian Boult , Jonathan Miller , Henry Moore and George Melly . The campaign objected to "the dismantling of the Third Programme by cutting down its spoken word content from fourteen hours a week to six" and "segregating programmes into classes". Mention of the campaign even reached debate in the House of Commons. From the launch until 1987, the controllers of Radio 3 showed preferences towards speech and arts programming as opposed to focus on classical music and

3108-599: The band's With the Lights Out box set . In 2006, the group Hefner released an album called Maida Vale , which was recorded here. The White Stripes included their version of the Dusty Springfield classic " I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself ", recorded for The Evening Session in MV4 by Miti Adhikari on their album Elephant . In 2002, Andrea Bocelli 's Sentimento was made at the studios. The label Maida Vale Records,

3192-631: The beginning of each track. Then the artist performs 5 or 6 tracks uninterrupted, which can include a cover. This BBC Radio –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Maida Vale Studios Maida Vale Studios is a complex of seven BBC sound studios, of which five are in regular use, in Delaware Road, Maida Vale , west London . It has been used to record thousands of classical music , popular music and drama sessions for BBC Radio 1 , BBC Radio 2 , BBC Radio 3 , BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 6 Music from 1946 to

3276-433: The building is in need of constant maintenance and due to its location in a residential area there are limits to the hours of operation and access. In July 2007, the BBC announced that the studios were "wholly unsuitable for the 21st century", and it was reported that it would be sold to property developers as part of cost-cutting measures. On 5 June 2018, the BBC announced that the studios would close by 2023. The intention

3360-528: The casualty" of these proposals and caused some controversy. A further rumour was expressed that Radio 3 could be closed altogether as a strong statistical case existed against the station according to The Guardian . However, the Director-General, Charles Curran , publicly denied this as "quite contradictory to the aim of the BBC, which is to provide a comprehensive radio service". Curran had earlier dismissed any suggestion that Radio 3's small audience

3444-463: The changes, figures still continued to fall. The mid- to late 2000s did, however, offer new projects undertaken on the station: The Beethoven Experience in June 2005 saw the broadcast of his works broadcast non-stop for six days. A similar project occurred six months later when A Bach Christmas was run for ten days in the lead to Christmas and in February 2007 when a week was similarly given over to

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3528-468: The corridors, peering through the windows of locked rooms, on a hunt for the Radiophonic Workshop. We came across abandoned tape machines and Shostakovich posters in the hallways... We hovered outside the locked Radiophonic room, a little disappointed by what we could see through the window. We contemplated unscrewing the Radiophonic Workshop name plate from the door and making off with it, but knew

3612-430: The country. Lunchtime was from 1   to 2   pm and Afternoon continued until 5 pm, with presenters being rotated weekly for the latter program. The live Monday edition of Lunchtime was repeated on Sunday at the same time. From 2024, these were merged as Classical Live . The Early Music Show presents European music dating up to the time of Bach, broadcast at 2   pm each Sunday. Episodes cover

3696-465: The coverage of political and economic affairs would be passed to Radio 4, and Radio 3 would keep drama, poetry, and talks by scientists, philosophers and historians. The Broadcasting in the Seventies report also proposed a large cutback in the number and size of the BBC's orchestras. In September 1969, a distinguished campaign group entitled the Campaign for Better Broadcasting was formed to protest, with

3780-407: The development of the BBC strategy for audio downloads and on demand content". The experiment was wildly successful, attracting 1.4 million downloads but was met with anger from the major classical record labels who considered it unfair competition and "devaluing the perceived value of music". As a result, no further free downloads have been offered, including as part of the BBC iPlayer service, and

3864-599: The disbandment of several of the BBC's orchestras and of the Music Division, resulting in low morale and industrial action by musicians that delayed the start of the Proms. Senior management was also getting dissatisfied with listening figures leading to the Director-General Alasdair Milne to suggest that presentation style was "too stodgy and old-fashioned". In 1987 the positions of Controller of Music and Controller of Radio 3 were merged, and with it

3948-444: The end of the programme; the latter a resurrection from the old Home Service ), were criticised. However, during this time the long running arts discussion programme Critics' Forum was launched as well as themed evenings and programmes of miscellaneous music including Sounds Interesting . In 1978, Ian McIntyre took over as controller of Radio 3 but quickly faced uncomfortable relationships between departments. At approximately

4032-507: The evening of cultural speech programmes – poetry, plays". Equally, questions were being asked by the poet Peter Porter about whether other spoken content, for example poetry, would remain on the station. These concerns also led to the composer Peter Maxwell Davies and the music critic Edward Greenfield to fear that "people would lose the mix of cultural experiences which expanded intellectual horizons". However, Radio 3 controller Howard Newby reassured these concerns by replying that only

4116-477: The hour. The programme is presented by Petroc Trelawny , Hannah French and Kate Molleson during the week and by Tom McKinney and Elizabeth Alker at the weekend. The Anglican service of sung evening prayer is broadcast on Wednesday afternoons. It is broadcast live from cathedrals, university college chapels and churches throughout the UK. On occasion, it broadcasts Choral Vespers from Catholic cathedrals, (such as Westminster Cathedral ), Orthodox Vespers, or

4200-479: The introduction of a fixed programming point at 22:00 so that if live programme overran, later programming could be cancelled to allow Through the Night to begin promptly. In 1998, Roger Wright took over as controller of the station. Soon after his appointment some changes were made to showcase a wider variety of music; a new, relaxed, late-night music programme Late Junction featured a wide variety of genres; programmes focusing on jazz and world music were given

4284-427: The largest commissioner of new music in the world" as a model for what the BBC should be about. By 2008, however, the station faced pressures to increase its audience by making programmes more accessible while loyal listeners began to complain about the tone of these new changes. Presentation was described as "gruesome in tone and level" and global music output was mocked as "street-smart fusions" and "global pop". At

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4368-570: The late 1950s and early 1960s, the radio programme Movie-Go-Round was broadcast from here, in which Peter Haigh played sound clips from major films. The Beatles used studio MV5 several times in 1963 to record sessions for BBC Radio. The sessions for John Peel 's BBC Radio 1 programme as well as Peter Clayton 's Sounds of Jazz (broadcast on Sunday evenings using the BBC Radio 2 VHF transmitters) were also recorded at Maida Vale. The studios have been under regular threat of closure by BBC management:

4452-456: The looming launch date for commercial competitor Classic FM who were, and still remain, Radio 3's biggest rivals. Kenyon, similar to Singer a decade earlier, believed that Radio 3 had to make changes to its presentation before the new station began broadcasting rather than react later. As a result, three senior producers were sent to study classical music stations in the United States and

4536-456: The music, the performers, and occasional discussions of musical style. Regular presenters include Lucie Skeaping and Hannah French. In Tune is "Radio 3's flagship early evening music programme". It was first broadcast on 13 July 1992 and was launched in response to the forthcoming launch of the competitor radio station Classic FM . Since 1997 the programme has been presented by Sean Rafferty and (since 2017) Katie Derham , and features

4620-475: The operation of the Proms, under the former Music Controller John Drummond . Drummond, like Hearst, believed that the music programmes' presentation was too stiff and formal and he therefore encouraged announcers to be more natural and enthusiastic. Repeats of classic drama performances by the likes of John Gielgud and Paul Scofield were also included because, in his view, newer drama was "gloomy and pretentious". He also introduced features and celebrations of

4704-577: The premises by 2025, moving into a new development which is part of the Olympic Park , offering high-tech facilities and two spaces for public concerts. In August 2023, the studios were sold to a partnership between Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner , and Hans Zimmer & Steven Kofsky. The complex was built in 1909 as the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace and Club. Over a period of 15 months in 1933/1934, one hundred men reduced

4788-441: The present. On 30 October 2009, BBC Radio 1 celebrated 75 Years of Maida Vale by exclusively playing 75 tracks recorded at the studios over the years. Snow Patrol played a live set from the studio with Fearne Cotton to celebrate 75 years of live music from the venue. In June 2018, the BBC announced the closure of the studios. In May 2020, Historic England designated it as a Grade II Listed Building . The BBC plans to vacate

4872-637: The programmes. By 2004, Radio 3's programming and services were being recognised by the Corporation at large, as seen in the 2003/4 Charter renewal application and the Annual report for the year which reported that Radio 3 had "achieved a record [audience] reach in the first quarter of 2004", and by the government: the Secretary of State's foreword to the government's Green Paper in 2005 made special mention of "the sort of commitment to new talent that has made Radio 3

4956-441: The revered Composer of the Week and would be presented by a signing from Classic FM – the disc jockey Paul Gambaccini . The criticism, especially once the programme went on air a few weeks later, was so unrelenting that Gambaccini announced the following spring that he would not be renewing his contract with Radio 3. However, Kenyon's controllership was marked by several highly distinguished programming successes. Fairest Isle

5040-414: The same level of income. As a result, the corporation had to reduce its costs. In the proposal entitled Delivering Quality First , the BBC proposed that Radio 3 contribute by broadcasting 25% fewer live or specially recorded lunchtime concerts and reducing the number of specially recorded evening concerts. The Trust did recognise, however, that "Radio 3 plays a vital role in the cultural and creative life of

5124-416: The same time Aubrey Singer became managing director of Radio and began to make programming on the station more populist in a drive to retain listeners in face of possible competition from competitors using a "streamed format". An example of this is the replacement of Homeward Bound in 1980 with an extended, presenter-driven programme called Mainly for Pleasure . The same year an internal paper recommended

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5208-401: The same time RAJAR began to record lower listening figures and decisions on policy were being changed resulting in the children's programme Making Tracks , experimental music programme Mixing It , theatre and film programme Stage and Screen and Brian Kay's Light Programme all being dropped, a reduction in the number of concerts and format changes to several other programmes. In spite of

5292-454: The staff who viewed him as a populariser. According to Hearst when interviewed for Humphrey Carpenter 's book, the main rival candidate for controller Martin Esslin , head of Radio Drama, had said to the interviewing panel that audience figures should play no part in the decision making process over programming. Hearst said he responded to the same question about this issue by commenting that as

5376-567: The station hired advertising agents Saatchi & Saatchi to help improve public perception. Kenyon's tenure was to meet with much controversy: in attempts to update the station's presentation, popular announcers Malcolm Ruthven, Peter Barker and Tony Scotland were axed as well as drama being cut by a quarter, resulting in a letter of protest to The Times signed by Harold Pinter , Tom Stoppard and Fay Weldon among others; new weekday programmes for breakfast time and drive time, entitled On Air and In Tune respectfully, were launched, as

5460-498: The station was financed by public money it needed to consider the size of its audience – there was a minimum viable figure but this could be increased with "a lively style of broadcasting". Hearst attempted to make the content of the channel more accessible to a wider audience, but his efforts, which included the evening drivetime programme Homeward Bound and Sunday phone-in request programme Your Concert Choice (the former an uninterrupted sequence of musical items identified only at

5544-416: The stern-faced security guard from earlier would have been on to us." Other BBC disc jockeys invited artists to perform at Maida Vale: Led Zeppelin recorded for Alexis Korner 's Rhythm and Blues programme in 1969, Walter Trout and Rob Tognoni recorded for Paul Jones 's R & B show, Marillion recorded for Radio 2 DJ Bob Harris and Jo Whiley invited Hard Fi to play at the studios. The venue

5628-561: The studio 'Maida Vegas'), as well as the more direct inheritors of the Peel Sessions tradition, Huw Stevens , Rob da Bank and Mike Davies . Peel said " The Clash did half one, then amazingly said that the equipment in the studio wasn't up to the standards they'd expected so they couldn't complete the session. Which seemed to me to be unbearably pretentious of them". Some albums by the Fall were entirely recorded there. The last band to record

5712-453: The studio with a staff producer and engineer (or more latterly a producer-engineer and assistant), during which the artists would record four songs, but there were also some sessions which were either live to air, or pre-recorded as live with an audience. Other Radio 1 programmes and DJs adopted a similar system of Maida Vale sessions, such as Janice Long , Andy Kershaw , and The Evening Session ( whose former host, Zane Lowe , has nicknamed

5796-596: The studios went on sale for over £10.5 million. The studios were subsequently sold to a partnership between Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, and Hans Zimmer & Steven Kofsky for £10.5 million. From 1967 to 2004, the John Peel Sessions were recorded in studio MV4. At first, a number of other venues around London were also used, such as the Playhouse Theatre in Charing Cross , but as these ceased to be used by

5880-480: The studios were added to the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest by Historic England . In September 2020, it was revealed that the BBC were lodging an objection to the listing, reportedly so that it could sell off the property. It was reported in February 2022 that the UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport had turned down the appeal. The building is Grade II listed. In November 2022,

5964-441: The time, despite laying out the radio structure that is recognisable today. At the time of the review, Radio 3 faced several problems. An early option to cut costs, required under the proposals, was to reduce the number of networks from four to three, so that Radio 3 would not broadcast during the day and would use the frequencies of either Radio 1 or 2 as the two stations would merge content. However "Day-time serious music would be

6048-484: The umbrella title of the Third Network, namely: All these strands, including the Third Programme, kept their separate identities within Radio 3 until 4 April 1970, when there was a further reorganisation following the introduction of the structural changes which had been outlined the previous year in the BBC document Broadcasting in the Seventies . On 10 July 1969 the BBC published its plans for radio and television in

6132-410: The work of a particular composer is studied in detail and illustrated with musical excerpts. Bach , Beethoven , Haydn , Mozart and Handel have all featured once most years, a different aspect of their work being chosen for study each time. However, the programme also covers more 'difficult' or less-widely known composers, with weeks devoted to Rubbra , Medtner , Havergal Brian , Kapralova , and

6216-542: The works of Tchaikovsky & Stravinsky , and Schubert in March 2012. As part of the original Beethoven Experience, the BBC trialled its first music downloads over the internet by offering free music downloads of all nine symphonies as played by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda . The stated aim was "to gauge audiences' appetite for music downloads and their preferred content, and will inform

6300-409: The years of Live Lounge, various Radio 1 features have involved this segment, these include: On 27 January 2011 BBC Radio 1 launched a new extended version of the popular Live Lounge dubbed 'Live Lounge Special with...' or sometimes referred to as 'Live Lounge XL'. The extended live lounge performance differs from the normal performance with an interview at the very beginning of the set rather than at

6384-477: Was a consideration: "What is decisive is whether there is a worthwhile audience, and I mean by worthwhile an audience which will get an enormous satisfaction out of it." As a result of Broadcasting in the Seventies , factual content, including documentaries and current affairs, were moved to BBC Radio 4 and the separate titled strands were abolished. The document stated that Radio 3 was to have "a larger output of standard classical music" but with "some element in

6468-423: Was a new three-hour programme of popular classics on Sunday mornings fronted by Brian Kay . These moves were defended by Kenyon who argued that the changes were not "some ghastly descent into populism" but were instead to create "access points" for new listeners. However, there was still "widespread disbelief" when it was announced in the summer that a new morning programme would take the 9   am spot from

6552-493: Was an ambitious project from 1995 which marked the 300th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell with a year-long celebration of British music and the programme Sounding the Century , which ran for two years from 1997, presented a retrospective of 20th-century music. Both won awards. He also introduced a number of well received specialist programmes including children's programme The Music Machine , early music programme Spirit of

6636-479: Was broadcast on Saturdays, usually in the late afternoon, until October 2019 when it moved to Sunday afternoon. Presenters of it on Radio 3 have included Ken Sykora , Steve Race , Peter Clayton , Charles Fox and Geoffrey Smith . Alyn Shipton became the presenter in May 2012. Broadcast on Saturday nights between 6 and 9:30   pm, Opera on 3 features live performances by the Metropolitan Opera from

6720-566: Was found that the sessions allowed up-and-coming bands to gain exposure, and for musicians and groups to try out new material, play covers they would not include on their albums, whilst also experimenting with different sounds and guest musicians. With the introduction of Radio 1 in 1967, programmes such as Top Gear embraced this concept, with sessions from such stars-in-waiting as David Bowie , Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix . When one of Top Gear' s presenters, John Peel , gained his own programme, specially commissioned recording sessions had

6804-536: Was having to undergo further changes as a result of recent findings from the BBC Trust . In the station's latest service review, carried out in 2010, the Trust recommended the station become more accessible to new audiences, easier to navigate through the different genres and to review the output of the BBC's orchestras and singers. Soon after this verdict, the license fee was capped and the BBC given more services to pay for with

6888-423: Was later developed further, and Radio 3 became the first BBC Radio station to broadcast permanently in this High Definition Sound (as it has been termed) format. BBC Radio 3's Breakfast programme originally launched in 1992 as On Air and took on its current name in 2007. It airs every day and is on air on weekdays from 6:30am until 9:30am, with a 9:00 am finish at the weekend. Short news bulletins are broadcast on

6972-543: Was rehearsed here, before its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall . In 1958, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was created, and based at Maida Vale Studios until its closure in 1998; the pioneering Delaware synthesiser made by EMS takes its name from the studios' address. The workshop's rooms are now used as a small TV studio for the Film programme, audio archiving facilities, engineering workshops and office space. In

7056-451: Was replaced in that slot by DJ Ace in 2017. The songs chosen as cover versions are often a completely different genre to that which the artist usually performs, and offer a new perspective on the original. Jamie Cullum 's cover of Pharrell Williams 's " Frontin' " led to Cullum being signed to Pharrell's label Star Trak when played to him at a later visit to The Jo Whiley Show , and was added to his 2003 album Twentysomething . Over

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