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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 20

Episode 20

Symphony

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Symphony, Episode 20

Music to complement the BBC Four Symphony series, by Weill, Roussel, Barber, Shostakovich.

Music to complement the BBC Four Symphony series. Weill: Symphony No 2. Roussel: Symphony No 4. Barber: Symphony No 1. Shostakovich Symphony No 7 in C (Leningrad).

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 reach the 1930s and 1940s: the last gasp of the Germanic Symphony from Kurt Weill; the final Symphony by one of the finest of all French Symphonists, Albert Roussel; a Symphony by a precocious young American, Samuel Barber; and Shostakovich's monumental work composed in besieged Leningrad in 1941, which became a symbol of Russian resistance to Nazi Germany.

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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