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

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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and studio sessions from the best new groups, and premiering works commissioned by the BBC

Hear and Now: 07/07/2012

07/07/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, 07/07/2012

Ivan Hewett presents music by Hans Abrahamsen and Michael Nyman.

Ivan Hewett presents Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee, performed by Ensemble Recherche. Violinist Alexander Balanescu discusses Michael Nyman's score for The Draughtsman's Contract.

Ivan Hewett presents the first complete broadcast of Hans Abrahamsen's shimmering chamber work Schnee, performed by Ensemble Recherche and recorded at the 2010 Huddersfield Festival. And in this week's Hear and Now Fifty, violinist Alexander Balanescu recounts his part in Michael Nyman's groundbreaking score for Peter Greenaway's 1982 feature film The Draughtsman's Contract. With commentary from Gillian Moore.

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.

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