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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: Leading Musicians

Afternoon Concert: Leading Musicians: Episode 2

Leading Musicians

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Leading Musicians, Episode 2

With Haydn and Schubert conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Schoenberg from Simon Rattle

With Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting music by Haydn and Schubert, Simon Rattle conducting Schoenberg, plus part of Rameau's Les Indes Galantes.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts his Concentus Musicus Wien in a Haydn Symphony and Schubert's complete Rosamunde music, Sir Simon Rattle guides the strings of the Berlin Philharmonic through the dark mysteries of Schoenberg's Transfirgured Night and there's more exotic music from Rameau's Les Indes Galantes.
With Louise Fryer


Haydn Symphony No. 26 in D minor, Hob. I:26 ('Lamentatione')
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

c. 2.20pm
Schoenberg Verklärte
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

c. 2.50pm
Rameau Les Indes Galantes Act I - Première entrée: Les Turc généreux
In an act subtitled 'the Gernerous Turk,' Valère has been roaming the world seeking her love, Emilie who has been captured by Valère's former servant Osman. When he finds them both, a repentant Osman releases his captive so that she may be reunited with her former lover.

Emilie..... Stéphanie Révidat (soprano),
Osman..... Aimery Lefèvre (bass-baritone),
Amour..... Valérie Gabail (soprano),
Valère..... François Geslot (countertenor),
Le Choeur du Marais,
La Simphonie du Marais
Hugo Reyne (director)

c. 3.20pm
Schubert Rosamunde D. 797 (complete)
Bernarda Fink, (contralto),
Arnold Schoenberg Choir,
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Leading Musicians

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.

Louise Fryer presents programmes featuring some of the leading musicians of our age

Louise Fryer presents programmes featuring some of the leading musicians of our age. Including excerpts from Rameau's opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes

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