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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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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: Mahler: Mahler and Nature

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Nature: Part 4

Mahler

Part 4 BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler, Mahler and Nature, Part 4

Penny Gore with music on the theme of Mahler and nature, including Mahler's Symphony No 4.

Penny Gore with music on the theme of Mahler and nature. Weber: Euryanthe Overture. Strauss: An Alpine Symphony. Webern: Im Sommerwind. Zemlinsky: Songs. Mahler: Symphony No 4.

Penny Gore closes this week dedicated to Mahler and Nature with his 4th Symphony, which was the culmination of his fascination with the folk poetry collection "Des Knaben Wunderhorn". Before then the week's theme continues with Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Webern's Im Sommerwind and Zemlinsky's Op.13 orchestral songs. 



2pm
Weber: Euryanthe Overture
French National Orchestra
Daniele Gatti, conductor

2.10pm
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor

3pm
Webern: Im Sommerwind
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor

Zemlinsky: Songs Op.13
Dagmar Peckova, soprano
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

4pm
Mahler: Symphony No.4
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Mahler

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Nature

Mahler and Nature

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 performances celebrating various facets of Gustav Mahler's life and work

Series to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Mahler, with performances celebrating various facets of the composer's life and work

Penny Gore presents music by Mahler and others exploring the theme of nature

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