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The Afternoon on Three

on BBC Radio 3

With Fiona Talkington.

1.00 Airs and Affections: Hamburg and Berlin
The third of four programmes of highlights from late-Baroque opera features passion and duty, a surfeit of wives, a strange festival and too many philosophers. Nicholas Anderson introduces excerpts from Telemann's Der geduldige Socrates and Graun's Cesare e Cleopatra.
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2.00 Schools Radio Showcase
2.05 In the News
2.25 Something to Think About
2.40 Music Workshop

3.00 Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Benny Goodman (clarinet) Columbia Jazz Combo conducted by the Composer.
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The Fifties
3.10 Made for TV
The last of five landmark programmes of the fifties. Six-Five Special, the first of the teenage music shows, featured a jiving studio audience and guests such as Tommy Steele and Adam Faith.

3.15 The BBC Orchestras: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Kathryn Stott (piano)

Mendelssohn Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)

Gershwin, orch Grofe Rhapsody in Blue

Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor

Contributors

Presenter:
Fiona Talkington
Presenter (Airs and Affections):
Nicholas Anderson

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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