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Performance on 3: 40 Years of Radio 3: Archive Recordings

Performance on 3: 40 Years of Radio 3: Archive Recordings: Episode 4

Episode 4

40 Years of Radio 3: Archive Recordings

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Simon Rattle and the CBSO's 1984 Proms performance, including Tippet and Shostakovich.

Petroc Trelawny presents a chance to hear Simon Rattle and the CBSO's famous 1984 performance at the Proms, which included works by Tippet, Shostakovich and Nielsen.

Petroc Trelawny presents the fourth of six programmes celebrating 40 years of Radio 3.

In 1984, four years after his appointment as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Principal Conductor, Simon Rattle brought the CBSO to the Proms and stunned the audience and critics with this concert which is still remembered as one of the highlights of his extraordinary two decades with the orchestra.

Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat
Nielsen: Symphony No 4 (The Inextinguishable); Pan and Syrinx

Yo Yo Ma (cello)
CBSO
Simon Rattle (conductor).

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.

Six recorded performances from the archives, to celebrate Radio 3's 40th anniversary

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