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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 Austria

Afternoon Concert: Music from Austria: Episode 1

Episode 1

Music from Austria

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Music from Austria, Episode 1

John Shea presents Austrian performers in music by Haydn, Brahms and Dvorak.

John Shea presents music from Austrian performers. Haydn: Symphony No 6. Brahms: Schicksalslied. Dvorak: Symphony No 5. Mozart: Piano Trio No 3, K502. Haydn: Symphony No 7 in C.

John Shea presents a week featuring some of Austria's finest music making with performances from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the ground breaking period instruments of Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Concentus Musicus and the chance to hear Mozart's own fortepiano

Haydn Symphony No. 6 in D, Hob. I/6 'Le matin'.
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

approx. 2.20pm
Brahms Variations in B flat on a theme by Joseph Haydn, op. 56a 
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)

c. 2.40pm
Brahms Schicksalslied, op. 54, 
Choral Society of Music Friends, Vienna 
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)

c. 3.00pm
Dvorák 
Symphony No. 5 in F, op. 76 
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) 

c. 3.30pm
Mozart Piano Trio No. 3 in B flat, K. 502 
Robert Levin (Mozart's fortepiano) 
Frank Stadler (Mozart's violin) 
Peter Sigl ('cello)

c. 4.00pm
Haydn Symphony No. 7 in C, Hob. I/7, 'Le midi' 
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor ).

Afternoon Concert: Music from Austria

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.

John Shea presents a series featuring performances given by musicians from Austria

John Shea presents a series of programmes featuring performances given by some of Austria's leading musicians

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