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's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and studio sessions from the best new groups, and premiering works commissioned by the BBC

Hear and Now: Cityscapes

Cityscapes

07/08/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Cityscapes

Robert Worby introduces cityscapes in music, from Gruber, Woolrich, Higdon and Rijnvos.

Robert Worby presents a selection of cityscapes in music. Including HK Gruber's Manhattan Broadcasts, John Woolrich's Whitel's Ey, plus works by Jennifer Higdon and Richard Rijnvos.

Robert Worby presents cityscapes in music, from orchestral evocations to soundscape recording.

HK Gruber: Manhattan Broadcasts 
Jennifer Higdon: river sings a song to trees (from CityScape) 
John Woolrich: Whitel's Ey 
Richard Rijnvos: NYConcerto
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 
Garry Walker, conductor
John Snijders, piano

Also, Robert takes part in a London Soundwalk, led by soundscape composer Hildegard Westerkamp.

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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