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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: Music from the New World

Afternoon Concert: Music from the New World: Episode 1

Episode 1

Music from the New World

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Music from the New World, Episode 1

Penny Gore presents music by Dvorak, Korngold, Salonen, Gershin and Shostakovich.

Penny Gore with music linked to the New World. Dvorak: Carnival Overture. Korngold: Violin Concerto. Dvorak: The Noonday Witch. Salonen: Wing on Wing. Gershwin: Piano Concerto.

Exploring the New World in the spirit of Dvorak, we go to Hollywood and the West Coast with Korngold's lyrical concerto and Salonen's dramatic work for two sopranos and orchestra inspired by Frank Gehry's shiny sail-style architecture for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. 

Moving from West to East at 4pm, former BBC Moscow Correspondent Martin Sixsmith joins presenter Penny Gore to introduce a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony no 2 as part his series Russia: The Wild East, tracing the course of 1000 years of Russian history, on Radio 4.

Afternoon Concert: Music from the New World

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.

Penny Gore presents music from the New World in the spirit of Dvorak

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