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

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Radio 3 Live in Concert

Performances & Events

Music: Classical

Presenting exciting live musical events from all over the world

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London: Episode 1: Debussy, Varese

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London

Episode 1

Episode 1: Debussy, Varese

Debussy, Varese

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London, Debussy, Varese

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in music by Debussy and Varese.

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London, a concert in which Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra. Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune. Varese: Ameriques.

Live from the Royal Festival Hall
Presented by Martin Handley

Salonen conducts the Philharmonia in Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Amériques by Varèse and - to mark its hundredth birthday - Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.


Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Varèse: Amériques

Philharmonia
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Salonen and the Philharmonia celebrate the centenary of one of the most famous premieres in musical history: on 29 May 1913 Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring took the musical world by storm. Provoking one of the most famous riots in musical history, the whole thing ended in uproar with the young conductor, Pierre Monteux, and his musicians fleeing for their lives. Puccini, who was in the Paris audience that night, described it as 'the creation of a madman.' Yet Stravinsky claimed that he was merely 'the vessel through which the Rite passed.' Opening the concert is Debussy's no less groundbreaking Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune. 'From that moment,' wrote Pierre Boulez, 'music began to beat with a new pulse'.

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.

A concert in which Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra

From the Royal Festival Hall in London, Martin Handley presents a concert in which Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Radio 3 Live in Concert

Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London

Episode 1: Debussy, Varese

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3