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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: Sound of Cinema

Afternoon Concert: Sound of Cinema: Episode 3: Luchino Visconti

Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals

Luchino Visconti

Episode 3

Episode 3: Luchino Visconti

Sound of Cinema

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Sound of Cinema, Luchino Visconti

Penny Gore presents music associated with director Luchino Visconti, by Verdi and Mahler.

Penny Gore presents music associated with film director Luchino Visconti. Verdi: Overture (La forza del destino). Mahler: Symphony No 5.

Luchino Visconti

From the mid 50s to the late 60s Visconti produced several landmark Verdi operas in La Scala, Spoleto and the Royal Opera House. He had been part of the Italian neorealist cinema movement, along with Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini. But by the time he made "Death in Venice" in 1971 he was making more personal films in which decadence, decline and "beauty" become key aesthetics. In Thomas Mann's original novella the role of Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) is an author, but Visconti makes him a composer and the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony appears again and again as Aschenbach watches the "beautiful" youth Tadzio. from afar.


Verdi
Overture La forza del destino
West-East Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim

Mahler
Symphony No.5
West German Radio SYmphony Orchestra, Jukka Pekka Saraste.

Afternoon Concert: Sound of Cinema

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.

Penny Gore presents music used at the cinema, in complete performances

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