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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 on 3: On Tour

Afternoon Concert: On Tour: Episode 5

Episode 5

On Tour

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, On Tour, Episode 5

BBC Orchestras in music by Arriaga, Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams, Haydn and Rachmaninov.

Presented by Penny Gore. BBC Orchestras in Arriaga: Overture (Los esclavos felices); Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6; Haydn: Symphony No 84; and Dvorak: Symphony No 8.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Including:

Arriaga: Overture (Los esclavos felices)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74 (Pathetique)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Konig (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No 84 in E flat, H I 84
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra, Op 43
Jean Yves Thibaudet (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Liszt: Mazeppa
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: On Tour

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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The BBC Orchestras and Singers in recordings from China, Spain and the Czech Republic

The BBC Orchestras and Singers travel the world with recordings from China, Spain and the Czech Republic, including the BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek at the 2008 Prague Spring Festival

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