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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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Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating subjects

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Stormy Weather

18/07/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, Stormy Weather

Suzy Klein explores composers' orchestral depictions of weather.

Suzy Klein explores composers' orchestral depictions of weather, focusing on music by Vivaldi, Handel, Vaughan Williams, Britten and Beethoven.

Suzy Klein with a little summer lightning for tonight's Prom, ahead of a performance of Richard Strauss's 'Alpine' Symphony, featuring as it does a tumultuous storm amongst the peaks. From Vivaldi to Handel, via Vaughan Williams, Britten and of course Beethoven, composers have used the outer limits the musical palette of the orchestra to depict one of nature's most reliable and noisy events. Featuring torrential rain, harmonic hailstones, bolts of choral lightning and howling wind...

Producer: Simon Elmes.

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