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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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Music Matters: The Girl of the Golden West, Edward Gardner, Early 20th-Century Music Drama, Nike Wagner

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04/10/2014

The Girl of the Golden West, Edward Gardner, Early 20th-Century Music Drama, Nike Wagner

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, The Girl of the Golden West, Edward Gardner, Early 20th-Century Music Drama, Nike Wagner

With The Girl of the Golden West, Edward Gardner and Vaughan Williams/English music drama.

Tom Service reviews The Girl of the Golden West and talks to conductor Edward Gardner. Plus Vaughan Williams and early 20th-century music drama, and Nike Wagner on Beethovenfest.

Tom Service reviews ENO's new production of Puccini's "The Girl of the Golden West", talks to conductor Edward Gardner, hears about Roger Savage's new book Masques, Mayings and Music Dramas - a look at early 20th century English music drama, with Vaughan Williams at its core - and talks to Nike Wagner about Beethovenfest, Bonn.

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