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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 Vienna

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Vienna: Part 3

Mahler

Part 3 BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler, Mahler and Vienna, Part 3

Penny Gore explores Mahler's early career. Includes Kindertotenlieder. Wolf: Penthesilea.

Penny Gore presents music from Mahler's early career in Vienna. Beethoven: Leonora Overture No 2. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder. Wolf: Penthesilea. Beethoven: Symphony No 4.

Today's Afternoon on 3 features the music of Beethoven - another composer Mahler admired, conducting his Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera. There's also music by Wolf, a fellow student at the Vienna Conservatory, and by Mahler himself.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm
Beethoven: Leonora Overture no.2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

2.15pm
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Marjana Lipovsek, contralto
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor

2.45pm
Wolf: Penthesilea
3.15pm
Beethoven: Symphony no.4 in B flat major
Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra
Lothar Zagrosek, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Mahler

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Vienna

Mahler and Vienna

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 explores Gustav Mahler's early career in Vienna

Penny Gore explores Gustav Mahler's early career in Vienna, where he studied at the Conservatory

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