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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: Music on the Brink

Afternoon Concert: Music on the Brink: Episode 3

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Episode 3

Music on the Brink

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Music on the Brink, Episode 3

With Katie Derham. Strauss: Deutsche motette. Reznicek: Der Sieger. Schumann: Kinderszenen

With Katie Derham. Strauss: Deutsche motette. Reznicek: Der Sieger. Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op 15.

Katie Derham introduces two works first performed in Berlin on the eve of the First World War. Strauss's motet for sixteen voices owes much to his Alpine symphony and contains the ominous words by Rückert: 'Let not the powers of darkness, dread night, gain inward light.' Strauss's motet is followed by a major work by his contemporary and rival, Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek. His fifty minute symphonic satire, 'The Winner, The Loser,' traces the journey of a man from success to failure.


Richard Strauss Deutsche motette, op.62
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

c. 2.20pm
Reznicek Der Sieger
Beate Koepp (alto), 
Choir and Symphony Orchestra of WDR Cologne
Michail Jurowski (conductor)

c. 3.10pm
Schumann Kinderszenen op.15
Alexandre Tharaud (piano).

Afternoon Concert: Music on the Brink

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.

Music from Renaissance and Baroque Spain, plus works performed on the eve of World War One

Katie Derham presents programmes featuring music from Renaissance and Baroque Spain, plus important works performed in five major European cities on the eve of the First World War

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