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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: The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Past and Present

Afternoon Concert: The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Past and Present: Episode 2

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Episode 2

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Past and Present

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Past and Present, Episode 2

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Mahler, Berg, Beethoven and Brahms.

Music from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. Berg: Violin Concerto. Beethoven: Mass in C. Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2.

Jonathan Swain with more live concert recordings from the Bavarian RSO, including Berg's Violin Concerto with BRSO Artist in Residence Gil Shaham and chief conductor Mariss Jansons. The orchestra joins forces with the Bavarian Radio Choir for Beethoven's exuberant Mass in C and, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, former BRSO chief conductor Rafael Kubelik conducts Brahms's second piano concerto with Daniel Barenboim in a recording from the BRSO archive.

Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

2.20 pm 
Berg
Violin Concerto ('To the Memory of an Angel')
Gil Shaham (violin)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Beethoven
Mass in C, op. 86
Luba Orgonásová (soprano)
Gerhild Romberger (mezzo-soprano)
Christian Elsner ( tenor)
Michael Volle (baritone)
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)

3.20 pm
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, op. 83
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelík (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Past and Present

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Jonathan Swain presents recordings made by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Jonathan Swain presents programmes focusing on recordings made by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, including recent performances and archive music from the 1970s under conductor Rafael Kubelik

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