BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Saturday Classics

Music: Classical

A view of classical music from a range of presenters; themed series and one-off programmes

A personal view of classical music from a range of presenters. Authored, themed mini-series and one-off programmes offer a chance to share the musical interests of the presenters.

Saturday Classics: Great Conductors

Saturday Classics: Great Conductors: Episode 2

Episode 2

Great Conductors

BBC Radio 3 - Saturday Classics, Great Conductors, Episode 2

James Jolly on great conductors of the media age: Bernstein, von Karajan and Solti.

James Jolly suggests some of the qualities that define the great conductors of the media age, focusing on Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti.

In the second of his two programmes James Jolly focuses on some of the qualities that define the "great" conductor of the media age; in particular his thoughts turn to the American, Leonard Bernstein; the Austrian, Herbert von Karajan and the Hungarian, Georg Solti. These three conductor titans - during the 1960s, 70s and 80s - not only captured the public imagination with their music making but quickly grasped the potential for imparting their musical personalities within the rapidly expanding media world.

The programme features recordings of music by Haydn, Puccini, Strauss, Beethoven, Sibelius, Wagner and Bernstein himself.

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.

James Jolly on the music of conductors who have thrived in an age of mass media

James Jolly explores the music-making of some of the great conductors who have thrived in an age of mass media

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