This week’s Classic FM radio highlights – including featured albums this week
22 January 2024, 10:29 | Updated: 18 March 2024, 10:40
The best programmes and music we’ve got coming up on Classic FM this week, beginning 18 March.
Last week, voting officially closed for the Classic FM Hall of Fame, but you can still join us every day from 9-10am for the Classic FM Hall of Fame Hour, where we play your favourite pieces that make it into the top 300 each year. Will your pieces make the cut, or – better yet – earn the coveted number one spot? Will you be among the lucky ten listeners to win an Amazon echo dot? Find out during our epic countdown, all Easter weekend long.
Having a busy month at work? Feeling stressed out by the end of the school term? Join us on Classic FM to unwind and self-soothe with the most relaxing music. Zeb Soanes is your calming host for Relaxing Evenings from 7-9pm, and Ritula Shah and Myleene Klass have just what you need to wind down on Calm Classics, every night from 10pm.
And if there’s a piece of music you’d love to hear this week, remember you can always ask for it on Classic FM Requests with Anne-Marie, from 1-2pm. Get in touch here, text 61812, or ask your Alexa to ‘send a request to Classic FM’.
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Classic FM’s Album of the Week
Eastbound: Schumann, Dvorak, Schreker – Festival Strings Lucerne, Daniel Dodds (Sony)
Every weekday with Alexander Armstrong, 11.15am
Join Alexander Armstrong every weekday after 11am to hear the just-released album from acclaimed violinist Daniel Dodds, performing with the Festival Strings Lucerne orchestra. Their collection of ‘eastbound’ music, including composers who looked towards the east for inspiration and ideas, allows listeners to enter a world of fantasy and imagination. These brilliant works for string orchestra, by Schumann, Dvořák, and Franz Schreker, are sure to provide you the perfect dose of inspiration and hope as you start your day.
Classic FM’s Discovery of the Week
Fauré: Complete Music for Solo Piano – Lucas Debargue (Sony)
Every weekday with Margherita Taylor, 6.15pm
Be the first to hear this upcoming release as Margherita Taylor’s Discovery of the Week – the comprehensive collection of one of the unsung heroes of solo piano, Gabriel Fauré, performed by French pianist and composer, Lucas Debargue. In a remarkable undertaking, Debargue has recorded every note of Fauré’s piano music – all on a newly designed piano rarely heard on record until now. We’ve collected the highlights for you here, so you can hear this magnificent achievement ahead of its release this Friday.