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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: Americana

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: Americana: Part 3

Part 3 Transatlantic Travel

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Transatlantic Travel, Americana, Part 3

Penny Gore presents music by Bernstein, Sessions, Beach, Thomson, Loeffler and Copland.

With Penny Gore. Bernstein: On the Town (excerpts). Sessions: Suite (The Black Maskers). Beach: Gavotte Fantastique. Plus Virgil Thomson, Charles Martin Loeffler and Copland.

This week's celebration of American music continues with the BBC Philharmonic performing the Overture and Dance Episodes from Leonard Bernstein's musical On The Town. There's more theatre music by Roger Sessions, a noted teacher whose pupils include composers as different as John Adams and Milton Babbitt, plus the BBC Singers performing Virgil Thomson, and a piano piece by Amy Beach. The BBC Concert Orchestra contribute a brand-new recording of music by Charles Martin Loeffler, and the afternoon ends with Aaron Copland's serial composition, Inscape.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm
Bernstein: On the Town - Overture and Three Dance Episodes
BBC Philharmonic,
H K Gruber (conductor).

Roger Sessions: The Black Maskers - Suite
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
David Robertson (conductor).

Amy Beach: Gavotte Fantastique, Op 54 No 2
Richard Uttley (piano).

2.40pm
Virgil Thomson: 4 Songs to Poems of Thomas Campion
BBC Singers,
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).

Charles Martin Loeffler: Divertimento Espagnole
Amy Dickson (saxophone),
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Johannes Wildner (conductor).

3pm
Copland: Inscape
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Grant Llewellyn (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: Americana

Americana

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

Programmes featuring the BBC performing groups in music by American composers

Penny Gore presents programmes featuring the BBC performing groups in live concerts and specially-made recordings of music by American composers

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