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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: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

BBC Philharmonic

Afternoon Concert: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music: Episode 4: Breaking Free: The BBC Philharmonic Live

Episode 4

Episode 4: Breaking Free: The BBC Philharmonic Live

Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

Breaking Free: The BBC Philharmonic Live

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Breaking Free - the minds that changed music, Breaking Free: The BBC Philharmonic Live

Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic performs music by Brahms and Schoenberg.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic in a live concert from MediaCityUK in Salford, featuring Brahms and Schoenberg. Plus recordings of music by Webern and Berg.

Breaking Free - the minds that changed music. Penny Gore presents a week of Afternoon on 3 comprising EBU and BBC performing groups as part of Radio 3's celebration of the Second Viennese School. Today begins with a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic. Martyn Brabbins conducts the orchestra in a Schoenberg-themed concert, including his work as an arranger. Then back to the studio with Penny Gore, and performances of Webern's Variations for Orchestra and Berg's Chamber Concerto Op.8 

2pm
BBC PHILHARMONIC LIVE
Presented by Tom Redmond
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture 
Schoenberg: Six Songs Op 8 
Brahms orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G minor 
Susan Bullock (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c.3.25pm - back to the studio with Penny Gore

Webern: Variations, Op.30 
Ulster Orchestra
Jurjen Hempel (conductor)

c.3.45pm
Berg Chamber Concerto, Op.8 
Nicholas Angelich, piano
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Paolo Beltrami, clarinet
Alberto Biano, bassoon
Federico Cicoria, oboe
Vittorio Ferrari, horn
Stefano Franceschini, clarinet
Corrado Giuffredi, clarinet
Bruno Grossi, flute
Floriano Rosini, trombone
Marco Schiavon, oboe
Stefano Semprini, bassoon
Ricardo Serrano, horn
Maurizio Simeoli, flute
Elena Schwarz, conductor

4.25pm
The World of the Second Viennese School in 5 Objects
Tom McKinney explores the mind of Schoenberg, the father of serial music, through the intriguing games that he invented - from his playing cards to tiddlywinks and his love of tennis.

Afternoon Concert: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music

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.

Penny Gore presents performances for Radio 3's celebration of the Second Viennese School

Penny Gore presents EBU and BBC performing groups playing works for Radio 3's celebration of the Second Viennese School, set alongside some of school's musical influences

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