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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: Symphony

Afternoon Concert: Symphony: Episode 17

Episode 17

Symphony

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Symphony, Episode 17

Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series, by Nielsen, Ives and Elgar.

Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series. Nielsen: Symphony No 2 (The Four Temperaments). Ives: Symphony No 2. Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat.

Katie Derham continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series. This week the Afternoon on 3 series reaches the twentieth century and find the Symphony flourishing far from its Austro-German foundations. Today we visit Denmark, England and the United States of America for the second symphonies written by three composers during the first decade of the century.

Afternoon Concert: Symphony

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.

Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series, including every symphony featured in it

Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series, including every note of every symphony featured in it

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