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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: Simon Rattle and Friends

Afternoon Concert: Simon Rattle and Friends: Episode 3

Simon Rattle and Friends

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Simon Rattle and Friends, Episode 3

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays music by Haydn, Sibelius, Ligeti and Schumann.

Louise Fryer presents music from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn: Symphony No 91. Sibelius: Luonnotar. Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre. Schumann: Symphony No 2 in C.

Today Louise Fryer presents Simon Rattle conducting not his own Berlin Philharmonic, but probably Germany's second-best orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Symphonies by Haydn and Schumann frame the concert, and they're joined by the Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan in stunning pieces by Sibelius and Ligeti.

Haydn: Symphony No. 91 in E flat major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.

2.20pm
Sibelius: Luonnotar
Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Barbara Hannigan (soprano),
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.

2.40pm
Schumann: Symphony no. 2 in C major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Simon Rattle.

Afternoon Concert: Simon Rattle and Friends

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.

Louise Fryer presents concerts featuring the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring concerts conducted around central Europe by Simon Rattle, with the orchestra of which he is chief conductor, the Berlin Philharmonic

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