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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 3: Ben Johnson, James Baillieu, Shabaka Hutchings, Alexandra Soumm

Music: Classical

Episode 3

Episode 3: Ben Johnson, James Baillieu, Shabaka Hutchings, Alexandra Soumm

Radio 3 New Generation Artists

Ben Johnson, James Baillieu, Shabaka Hutchings, Alexandra Soumm

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Performances by Ben Johnson, James Baillieu, Shabaka Hutchings and Alexandra Soumm.

With tenor Ben Johnson performing Britten's On this Island and violinist Alexandra Soumm playing Prokofiev, plus jazz from clarinettist Shabaka Hutchings.

More studio performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Today's performers are British tenor Ben Johnson in Britten's cycle On this Island, French violinist Alexandra Soumm in Prokofiev's Second Sonata, and jazz clarinettist Shabaka Hutchings, who plays music by himself, Julian Joseph and Dave Brubeck. 

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Britten: On this Island
Ben Johnson (tenor), James Baillieu (piano)

Hutchings & Joseph: At Rest
Brubeck: In Your Own Sweet Way
Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet), Julian Joseph (piano)

Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 2
Alexandra Soumm (violin), Aimo Pagin (piano).

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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