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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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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Women in the Shadows

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Women in the Shadows: Episode 1: Joanna MacGregor

Music: Classical

Episode 1

Episode 1: Joanna MacGregor

Women in the Shadows

Joanna MacGregor

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Women in the Shadows, Joanna MacGregor

Joanna MacGregor (piano) in Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Amy Beach, Ives and Gubaidulina.

Joanna MacGregor (piano) performs Lili Boulanger's Trois Morceaux. Plus music by Nadia Boulanger, Amy Beach, Ives, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Sofia Gubaidulina.

Women in the Shadows

The first in a series of concerts from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland celebrating the work of some of the great female composers alongside works by their male contemporaries. Joanna MacGregor plays music by Gubaidulina, both Boulanger sisters and Amy Beach alongside Charles Ives's transcendental 'Alcotts'.

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Sofia Gubaidulina: Musical Toys 1-8 
Lili Boulanger: Trois Morceaux
Nadia Boulanger: Improvisation no.1 in E flat minor
Amy Beach: Cradle Song of the Lonely Mother
Charles Ives: 'The Alcotts' from Piano Sonata no.2 
Ruth Crawford Philips: Preludes 1, 6 and 9 (Nine Preludes for Piano)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Musical Toys 9-14.

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.

Series celebrating the work of some of the great female composers

Series of concerts given at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, celebrating the work of some of the great female composers alongside works by their male contemporaries

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