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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: Transatlantic Travel: European Music in the USA

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: European Music in the USA: Part 3

European Music in the USA

Part 3 Transatlantic Travel

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Transatlantic Travel, European Music in the USA, Part 3

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven and Wagner. And San Francisco Symphony in Mozart

Performances by American orchestras. Beethoven: Overture (The Ruins of Athens); Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor. Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder. Mozart: Symphony No 35 in D (Haffner).

Katie Derham continues her survey of performances of European music by USA orchestras with Beethoven, Wagner and Mozart from Saint Paul and San Francisco.

Christine Brewer is the soloist in Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and Christian Zacharias is the soloist in Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto.


Beethoven
Overture: The Ruins of Athens
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor)

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor, Op 37
Christian Zacharias (piano / director)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

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Wagner
Wesendonck Lieder
Christine Brewer (soprano)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Ward Stare (conductor)

3.10
Mozart
Symphony No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: European Music in the USA

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.

Series exploring transatlantic musical travel

Series exploring transatlantic musical travel, with performances by European and American orchestras in the US and Europe, as well as works by composers who sought refuge in the United States

Katie Derham presents programmes with American orchestras performing European repertoire

Katie Derham presents a series of programmes featuring American orchestras performing European repertoire, with music by Beethoven and a performance by a leading soloist

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