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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 4

Simon Rattle and Friends

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Simon Rattle and Friends, Episode 4

Berlin Philharmonic in Ligeti, Wagner and Beethoven. Plus Vienna Philharmonic in Schumann.

Berlin Philharmonic in Ligeti: Atmospheres. Wagner: Lohengrin (Prelude to Act 1). Beethoven: Symphony No 7. Plus the Vienna Philharmonic in Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri.

Jonathan Swain rounds off his week featuring Simon Rattle and great central European orchestras with him conducting the Vienna Philharmonic as well as his own Berlin Philharmonic. There's Schumann's large-scale cantata 'Paradise and the Peri' from Vienna, and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony to end the week from Berlin.

Ligeti: Atmospheres
Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin
Berlin Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.

2.15pm
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri
Annette Dasch (soprano),
Susan Gritton (soprano),
Bernarda Fink (contralto),
Topi Lehtipuu (tenor),
Andrew Staples (tenor),
Florian Boesch (bass),
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus,
Vienna Philharmonic,
Conductor Simon Rattle.

3.45pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A major
Berlin Philharmonic,
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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