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

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Programme which examines a different piece of music each week

Programme which examines a different piece of music each week, looking at the musical form or the composer's style, and exploring the many things contributing to the overall experience

Discovering Music: Puccini's La boheme

Puccini's La boheme

25/02/2007

BBC Radio 3 - Discovering Music, Puccini's La boheme

Catherine Bott explores Puccini's La Boheme with singers Katie van Kooten and Peter Auty.

Catherine Bott explores Puccini's Parisian masterpiece La boheme, with singers Katie van Kooten and Peter Auty. Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Puccini is revered as one of music's great tunesmiths but as Catherine Bott reveals there is much more to his art. With singers Katie van Kooten and Peter Auty and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner, Catherine Bott examines the final scene of Act One of the opera, and Puccini's artful means of sustaining dramatic narrative through music. 

Producer: Chris Wines.

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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