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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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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: Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Radio 3 New Generation Artists: Episode 2: Benjamin Grosvenor, Mahan Esfahani, the Elias Quartet, ATOS Trio

Music: Classical

Benjamin Grosvenor, Mahan Esfahani, the Elias Quartet, ATOS Trio

Episode 2

Episode 2: Benjamin Grosvenor, Mahan Esfahani, the Elias Quartet, ATOS Trio

Radio 3 New Generation Artists

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Performances by Benjamin Grosvenor, Mahan Esfahani, the Elias Quartet and the ATOS Trio.

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord) in Handel: Suite, HWV434. Elias String Quartet in Purcell: Fantasias 8, 6, 7. Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) in Scarlatti: Sonatas. ATOS Trio in Beethoven.

More studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Today's performers are British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor playing Scarlatti, Iranian-born harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in Handel, the Elias String Quartet in Purcell Fantasias, and the ATOS Trio from Germany in Beethoven's 'Ghost Trio'.

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Handel: Suite in B flat major, HWV434
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Purcell: Fantasia No. 8 in D minor; Fantasia No. 6 in F major; Fantasia No. 7 in C minor
Elias String Quartet

Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in F minor, Kk466; Sonata in D minor, Kk141
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 70 No.1 'Ghost'
ATOS Trio.

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.

Studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme

Series of studio and concert performances given by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme

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