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The Charles Hazlewood Show (BBC Radio 2)
Charles explores the blues through Benjamin Britten's 'Frank Bridge Variations' and hammond organ virtuoso Brian Auger's, 'Ellis Island' for The Charles Hazlewood Show on BBC Radio 2 (broadcast 12.12.2007)
Discovering Music (BBC Radio 3)
Charles unpicks Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No.1 with his chamber orchestra Excellent Device! on Radio 3's 'Discovering Music'. (broadcast 07.05.2007)
When Charlie Met Wyclef (BBC Radio 2)
Charles went to New York to meet one of his heroes, Hip Hop artist Wyclef Jean. Here is an extract of Charles talking and jamming with Wyclef and Jerry Wonder.
 
All Charles' R3 broadcasts are available on the BBC's website.

Read an interview with Charles about the Discovering Music series here.

 

 

 

 

 


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'BBCTV's pin-up conductor and Radio 3's resident interpretative guru.' Daily Telegraph 
 
Charles maintains a central position in Radio 3's output, conducting and presenting Discovering Music (Sunday afternoons, 5pm), where he uses his unique hands-on approach to reveal the inner workings of great orchestral music, with the BBC orchestras and his own two bands Excellent Device! and Army of Generals.
 
'Charles Hazlewood's Discovering Music (is) terrific.'  The Observer
 
Charles hosted his own Radio 2 show for several years from his Somerset farm. Winner of 3 Sony Awards, these sessions were a great opportunity for him to share his extraordinarily diverse musical tastes: jamming with The Guillemots, banging on about the virtues of Mozart wind serenades, deconstructing Radiohead or explaining fugue in the context of a Prodigy track.


Upcoming Projects for BBC Radio 2


Charles in jamming sessions & general mayhem with Mick Jones (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite), and a new run of the triple Sony Award-winning Charles Hazlewood Show.

A new run of the triple Sony Award Winning Charles Hazlewood Show begins on Thursday 22 September 2011.

'Charles Hazlewood has managed to bring classical music to the masses without the use of low-cut tops, mediaeval costumes or silly hairstyles. His talents as a conductor are prolific but, as any fan of this multi-Sony-Award-winning series will know, his skills as an orator are just as effective. Evocative combinations of words tumble from his lips without the use of a script, as he seamlessly shapeshifts from classical to indie to folk. The atmosphere is ethereal hedonism. A work by Bach can segue into a song by Kate Bush before exploding into a piece of dubstep. Hazlewood loves all music and, thankfully, he is happy to share his enthusiasm'   Radio Times

'How do The Prodigy connect to Bach? Charles Hazlewood offers a brilliantly nerdy dissection of iconic pop tracks and their musical cross-sections'   Guardian

'What do Mozart & Abba have in common? The answers are unveiled in this series from conductor Charles Hazlewood who has done so much to dissolve musical barriers'   Sunday Times

'Our eponymous hero continues his quest to play classical and popular, from Messiaen to Killing Joke and Stravinsky to Steve Harley, connecting his reliably interesting and diverse selections almost spuriously as he goes.'   Time Out
 
'What Heston Blumenthal is to food, Charles Hazlewood is to music'.    The Guardian