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The Afternoon on Three

on BBC Radio 3

With Susan Sharpe.
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1.00 Masque into Opera In the last of three programmes exploring the beginnings of the British operatic tradition,
Bruce Wood introduces excerpts from the major stage works of Purcell.
Series producer Gwen Hughes
2.00 Schools
Playtime 2.15 Time to Move 2.35 Listen!
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3.00 An Outside View
Norwegian cellist Truls Mork reflects on British music and plays:
Haydn Cello Concerto No 1 in C
Norwegian CO/lona Brown Discs
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3.30 New series
Britten's Apprenticeship By the age of 14, Britten had filled 100 opus numbers. In four programmes, Philip Reed of the Britten-Pears Library at Aldeburgh and Paul Hindmarsh chart Britten's remarkable composing apprenticeship.
1: 1923-8: At home and at
South Lodge
Britten Poeme No 4
Three Early Songs Five Waltzes
Sonatina
String Quartet in F (1928)
Quatre chansons françaises

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Introduces:
Bruce Wood
Producer:
Gwen Hughes
Unknown:
Truls Mork
Unknown:
Brown Discs
Unknown:
Philip Reed
Unknown:
Paul Hindmarsh

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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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