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: Chamber & Recital

Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Birds, grounds and chaconnes

Wigmore Hall: Elena Urioste

Birds, grounds and chaconnes

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Birds, grounds and chaconnes

Pianist Joanna MacGregor in recital, live from Wigmore Hall, London.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, pianist Joanna MacGregor plays an eclectic mix of birds, grounds and chaconnes, including works by Rameau, Messiaen, Gibbons and Glass.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Joanna MacGregor, one of the UK's most adventurous pianists, plays an eclectic mix of birds, grounds and chaconnes, including works by Rameau, Messiaen, Purcell, Birtwistle, Gibbons and Glass.

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Rameau: Le rappel des osieaux
Couperin: Les fauvétes plaintives
Messiaen: Le merle noir
Rameau: La poule
Janáček: The barn owl has not flown (from On an Overgrown Path, Book 1)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Oockooing Bird 
Alizâdeh: Call of the Birds
Purcell: Ground in C minor, Z221
Philip Glass: Prophecies (from Koyaanisqatsi)
Byrd: First Pavane (from My Ladye Nevells Booke)
Philip Glass: Knee Play No  4 (from Einstein on the Beach, from Trilogy Sonata)
Pachelbel: Ciaccona in F minor

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

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