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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2009

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2009: Episode 3

Episode 3

Edinburgh International Festival 2009

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Edinburgh International Festival 2009, Episode 3

Bejun Mehta (countertenor) in Purcell, Haydn, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams and Berkeley.

Bejun Mehta (countertenor) and Julius Drake (piano) perform songs by Purcell, Haydn, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Berkeley, Warlock, Howells and Gurney.

Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals

Countertenor Bejun Mehta returns to the Edinburgh Festival with pianist Julius Drake for a concert of English settings by Purcell and Haydn, Beethoven's only song cycle, An die ferne Geliebte, and a variety of romantic English songs by Vaughan Williams, Berkeley, Warlock, Howells and Gurney.

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.

Series of chamber concert performances from the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival

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