BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and studio sessions from the best new groups, and premiering works commissioned by the BBC

Hear and Now: New Year, New Music

New Year, New Music

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, New Year, New Music

Radio 3 presenters champion the new music they love.

BBC Radio 3 celebrates new music at New Year as its presenters champion the new music they love, including works by Larry Goves, Cassandra Miller, Gavin Bryars and George Benjamin.

New Year New Music
BBC Radio 3 celebrates new music at the beginning of the new year as ten of the station’s presenters champion the music they love written in the last ten years.  Ten works by composers including Larry Goves, Cassandra Miller, Gavin Bryars and George Benjamin are advocated by ten presenters including Sarah Walker, Tom Service, Elizabeth Alker, Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Andrew McGregor.

George Benjamin: Written on Skin (Act 1 Scenes 5 & 6)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by George Benjamin

Larry Goves: Hollow yellow willow for orchestra
BBC Philharmonic conducted by Mark Heron

Gavin Bryars: Credo from the Worcester Ladymass
Trio Mediaeval

Cassandra Miller: Duet for cello and orchestra
Charles Curtis (cello) 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Hans Abrahamsen: ‘I will go out now’ from Let Me Tell You   
Barbara Hannigan (soprano)
Bavarian Radio Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons

Edmund Finnis: Elsewhere  
Daniel Pioro (violin)

James MacMillan: Stabat Mater  
The Sixteen and Britten Sinfonia
conducted by Harry Christophers

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Aeriality  
Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest Act 1 excerpt
BCMG conducted by Thomas Ades

Kerry Andrew: Apples, Plums, Cherries
Juice vocal ensemble

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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