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Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins\u2019 practise notebooks, pianist Stephen Hough\u2019s account of tackling Tchaikovsky\u2019s First Piano Concerto, the voice of Fairport Convention\u2019s Sandy Denny in the words of Scottish poet Don Paterson, and E. M. Forster\u2019s evocation of Beethoven\u2019s 5th Symphony in Howard\u2019s End: just some of the texts we\u2019ll hear on tonight\u2019s celebration of writing about music.

Ian\u2019s joined by four Radio 3 presenters to discuss the challenges of all sorts of music writing, from concert reviews to programme notes, memoirs, poetry, fiction, and scripts for radio. His guests are Essential Classics Georgia Mann who pored over Oasis reviews in the N.M.E. in her teens, Hannah French from The Early Music Show who once read a biography of Pablo Casals in a day, Composer of the Week\u2019s Kate Molleson who started out writing concert reviews at University in Montreal, and Corey Mwamba who presents Freeness and immersed himself in jazz books at Southampton library whilst doing his A-Levels.

Producer: Ruth Thomson