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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: Cleveland Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Cleveland Orchestra: Episode 2

Cleveland Orchestra

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Cleveland Orchestra, Episode 2

The Cleveland Orchestra performs music by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Haydn and Bruckner.

Music performed by the Cleveland Orchestra. Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture. Brahms: Symphony No 3. Haydn: Piano Concerto, H XVIII 2. Bruckner: Symphony No 7.

Penny Gore explores some recent concert performances by the Cleveland Orchestra.

Mendelssohn: Overture The Hebrides, op. 26, ('Fingal's Cave')
Cleveland Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)

c. 2.10pm 
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, op. 90
Cleveland Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

c. 3.00pm Haydn: Piano Concerto in D, Hob. XVIII:2
Emanuel Ax (piano), Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)

c. 3.20pm 
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E
Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Cleveland Orchestra

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Penny Gore explores some recent concert performances by the Cleveland Orchestra

Penny Gore explores some recent concert performances by the Cleveland Orchestra, founded in 1918 and often referred to as one of America's 'Big Five'

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