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: Wigmore Hall: Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton

Wigmore Hall Mondays: Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton

Wigmore Hall: Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Wigmore Hall: Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton

Bass-baritone Ashley Riches and pianist Joseph Middleton let animal life take centre stage

New Generation Artist, bass-baritone Ashley Riches, and pianist Joseph Middleton let animal life take centre stage today.

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: New Generation Artist, the bass-baritone Ashley Riches and pianist Joseph Middleton let animal life take centre stage in a recital recorded at Wigmore Hall in 2018 that ends with Ogden Nash's Musical Zoo by Vernon Duke, composer of scores for Broadway and the Ballets Russes.
Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. 

Schubert: Die Forelle, D550; Die Vögel, D691; Der Alpenjäger, D588
Fauré: Le papillon et la fleur, Op 1 No 1
Saint-Saëns: La coccinelle
Massenet: La mort de la cigale
Ravel: Histoires naturelles
Vernon Duke: Ogden Nash's Musical Zoo

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