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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 Concert: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Episode 1

Episode 1

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1

Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.

Kate Molleson presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performing music by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein and Rebel. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts his own violin concerto.

Kate Molleson launches a week of concerts by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Jean-Féry Rebel and Leonard Bernstein. And Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts his own Violin Concerto.

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, op. 132 (version for string orchestra arr. by Franz Welser-Möst)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, op. 13 ('Winter Daydreams')
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Franz Welser-Möst

c. 3.30 pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Violin Concerto
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen

c. 4.00 pm
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Conductor Klaas Stok

c. 4.30 pm
Jean-Féry Rebel: Les Élémens 
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Robin Ticciati

Coming up later in the week:
- Tuesday's programme begins with Verdi's Requiem conducted by Riccardo Muti
- Wednesday's programme features Richard Strauss, including Also sprach Zarathustra and Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
- Thursday's Opera Matinee is Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten from the Bavarian State Opera
- Friday's programme includes Sir Simon Rattle conducting Schumann's Rhenish Symphony and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

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Series of concerts given by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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