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: Steven Mackey, Christopher Rouse

Steven Mackey, Christopher Rouse

06/04/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Steven Mackey, Christopher Rouse

The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Steven Mackey and Christopher Rouse.

Robert Worby presnts two orchestral works by American composers: America, a 20-minute symphony by Baltimore-based composer Christopher Rouse, and Dreamhouse, by Steven Mackey.

Robert Worby introduces a pair of orchestral works from America: a twenty minute symphony by the Baltimore-based composer Christopher Rouse, and Steven Mackey's Dreamhouse, a large-scale theatrical work for solo tenor, vocal quartet, electric guitar quartet and orchestra, with words by Mackey and Rinde Eckert.

Christopher Rouse: Symphony No.2
BBC Philharmonic
Clark Rundell (conductor)

Steven Mackey: Dreamhouse

Rinde Eckert (singer)
Synergy Vocals
Catch Electric Guitar Quartet
Jason Treuting (percussion)
BBC Philharmonic
Steven Mackey (conductor).

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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