Classical Live

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

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Music: Classical

Specially recorded music from BBC performing groups, the EBU and more.

Showcasing the best performances from the UK and beyond, recorded by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union.

Classical Live: The BBC Philharmonic and brilliant BBC string quartet recordings

The BBC Philharmonic and brilliant BBC string quartet recordings

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Live, The BBC Philharmonic and brilliant BBC string quartet recordings

Elizabeth Alker with music from home and abroad, including Brahms's 2nd Piano Concerto.

Elizabeth Alker with the best live recordings from home and abroad, including Brahms's 2nd Piano Concerto.

Elizabeth Alker brings three hours of the best live classical music recordings from home and abroad, including Brahms's 2nd Piano Concerto featuring the BBC Philharmonic performed by the South Korean pianist Sunwook Kim. Sunwook Kim came to international recognition when he won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, aged just 18, becoming the competition’s youngest winner for 40 years, as well as its first Asian winner.

And another prodigy is on the programme: Franz Schubert and his B Flat Major string quartet, written in 1814 when he was just seventeen. It's performed this afternoon by the internationally renowned Takacs Quartet.

Grazyna Bacewicz
Overture for orchestra (1943)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Viola da Gamba Sonata in D BWV. 1028
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord)

Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata BWV115 - 'Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit'
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano)
Daniel Hope (violin) 
Claudio Bohorquez (cello)
Naoki Kitaya (organ) 

Manuel de Falla
Three Cornered Hat, Suite No. 1
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Franz Schubert
String Quartet in B flat major D. 112
Takacs Quartet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (arr. Vikingur Olafsson)
Vesperae solonnes de confessore K. 339 - V. "Laudate Dominum omnes gentes" 
Vikingur Olafsson (piano)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Idomeneo K. 366 (excerpts)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales 
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Johannes Brahms 
Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major Op. 83
Sunwook Kim (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Ben Gernon (conductor)

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