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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: Classical

An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service

Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works

The Listening Service: Brahms - Behind the Beard

Is Birdsong Music?

Brahms - Behind the Beard

BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, Brahms - Behind the Beard

Tom Service considers whether Brahms had the most famous beard in classical music.

Tom Service considers whether Brahms had the most famous beard in classical music, asking what his abundant facial hair had to do with his music.

The most famous beard in classical music? Perhaps. And if so, what does Johannes Brahms's abundant facial hair have to do with his music? Tom Service looks at four contrasting compositions for clues: the First Piano Concerto, the Second Sextet, the choral piece 'Gesang der Parzen' (Song of the Fates) and the A-major Intermezzo.

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.

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