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Out of this world! What a Pearl Fishers duo… singing Bizet @ClassicFM Live @RoyalAlbertHall (+ a Happy 80th to Sir Willard White @effuimaono.tenor

Mission (for me) Impossible 🍿 @realaled starts to reveal YOUR movie music Hall of Fame from 10am (warming up with Grieg, Copland, Satie, Eric Whitacre + much more) I’m live @ClassicFM 1-4) #STAYAWAKE

Moonlight + music… another great #ClassicFMLive (@RoyalAlbertHall) for ‘a little (more) night music’ I’m live @ClassicFM after hours (1-4am) playing Vaughan Williams, George Gershwin, Einaudi, Philip Glass + much more #stayawake

Wonderful #TerryWogan tribute night on BBC4. Repeat of #BlanketyBlank quite an eye opener with Elaine Stritch calming her nerves during a tense moment 🚬 I guess bottom row designated 🚭

Thrills + chills for late night… 🎃 if you’re staying up. Strong coffee, low lights, Mozart, Debussy + Eric Whitacre all adding to the magic ✨I’m live @ClassicFM 1-4am #Halloween

#PeterSellers born a century ago today… Sept 8th 1925. Unfinished Schubert wakes up Chance the Gardener in Being There… playing the same opening movement (I’m live @ClassicFM 1-4am) m.youtube.com/watch?v=xP15EE…

#RIPBrianWilson they’ll be singing God Only Knows centuries from now… this song brought @BrianWilsonLive back to reality #loveandmercy ❤️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=2y3J46…

Walked out to this ☀️no coat, no scarf, coffee in hand 😀 #spring 🌿

Wake up/Stay up and smell the daffodils… springing into Friday + the weekend with some magic Mozart, fantastique Berlioz + a Saint-Saens ‘all-nighter’… I’m live @ClassicFM 1-4am #stayawake #spring 🌼🌸🌼

About @TIME … published 1st time this date 1923)… 2 British composers are among the 23 to have made the front cover (playing one of them) + Grieg, Lehár, Vivaldi + Beethoven’s 9th (all worth staying up for) I’m live @ClassicFM 1-4am) #stayawake

Venus, Jupiter + Mars… (from the top of Primrose Hill (3/7 ain’t bad) 🪐 (no Holst tonight but Mahler, Chabrier + Nigel Hess worth staying up for ) I’m live @ClassicFM 1-4am #stayawake #PlanetaryParade #heavensabove

For your consideration… a wintery Tchaikovsky symphony (YET to appear in the Hall of Fame)… just one of the standout ‘chills’ tonight (I’m live @ClassicFM 1-4am) #stayawake #winterdreams #Winter2025 🥶❄️

Not out of the woods yet… but it’s degrees warmer if you turn us up ❄️ both Beethoven +Brahms adding some fresh air later + new music by @LudovicoEinaud from his new ☀️summer album if you’re staying up (I’m live @ClassicFM 1-4am) #stayawake

#HappyNewYear2025 … I have fireworks too (the musical kind) 🍾Handel, Puccini, Mendelssohn + much more… (I’m live @ClassicFM 1-6am) #stayawake #LondonFireworks

Once upon a time… @RadioTimes and @tvtimesmagazine had to publish the BBC + ITV listings separately (some of us remember) 📺📻 out of tradition I buy them both just once a year 🤷‍♂️ I hope I’m not the only one 🤔 #Christmas2024

Will really miss the voice (+ time shared) with Howard… breathed energy + enthusiasm on air. Last time together on the ‘old’ @LBCNews +enjoying an afternoon on South Bank reminiscing about old places we’d been hired + fired. He had a story about everyone #RIPHowardHughes

Sending a little Elgar inspiration… to @mrdanwalker waking up for today’s downhill half of his Coast to Coast challenge for Global’s Make Some Noise… Hope the ice bath worked! Good luck… 🚵‍♂️ @makenoise @ClassicFM

Time was… this was how we got our ‘breaking news’… it’s not been the same I know but I’ll miss the daily @EveningStandard (last edition on the streets today) a part of another London I grew up in 🗞️(standard!) #eveningstandard

Full/Super/Harvest moon… + a partial lunar eclipse if you’re staying up late ( Brahms/Verdi/John Barry + Vaughan Williams/Thos Tallis) on full beam as well (I’m live @ClassicFM 1-4am) #stayawake #FullMoon 🌖

Exciting day… @ClassicFM just got a lot calmer 😌 + more widescreen 🎬