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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: American Emigres

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: American Emigres: Part 3

Part 3 Transatlantic Travel

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Transatlantic Travel, American Emigres, Part 3

Louise Fryer presents music by Grainger, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov written in the USA.

Louise Fryer with music from European emigres to America. BBC Philharmonic in music by Grainger. Plus the BBC NOW in Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 and Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3.

Neither Prokofiev nor Rachmaninov found the move to the US easy, and neither stayed for long. Both needed to earn a living from concert performances, and their compositional output was much reduced during their time in America. Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov's Third Symphony are large-scale works which belie those difficulties, and remain among their most popular and enduring works.

Grainger: Colonial Song / Mock Morris / Country Gardens
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Hickox (conductor).

2.10pm
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op 26
John Lill (piano),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Walter Weller (conductor).

2.40pm
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 44
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Rumon Gamba (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: American Emigres

American Emigres

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

Music written in exile by the many 20th-century European composers who fled to the USA

Series of programmes centring on music written in exile by the many 20th-century European composers who fled to the USA

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