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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 3

Leading Musicians

Episode 3

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

With Haydn's The Storm from Nikolaus Harnoncourt, plus Rameau: Les Indes Galantes (Act 2).

Presented by Louise Fryer. Includes Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting Concentus Musicus Wien in Haydn's The Storm, H XXIVa 8, plus Act 2 of Rameau's Les Indes Galantes.

Rameau's Les Indes Galantes Act II: the Incas of Peru complete with a volcanic eruption and Haydn's depiction of a storm are introduced by Louise Fryer

Haydn The Storm, Hob. XXIVa/8
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

c. 3.50pm
Rameau Les Indes Galantes 
Deuxième entrée: Les Incas du Pérou (The Incas of Peru)

The Inca Huascar and the Spaniard Don Carlos both pursue Princess Phani and a volcano erupts

Carlos..... Reinoud van Mechelen (countertenor),
Phani..... Valérie Gabail (soprano),
Emilie..... Stéphanie Révidat (soprano), 
Huascar..... Aimery Lefèvre (bass-baritone),
Le Choeur du Marais,
La Simphonie du Marais
Hugo Reyne (director).

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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