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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: Ulster Orchestra: The Five Nations

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra: The Five Nations: Episode 3

Episode 3

Ulster Orchestra: The Five Nations

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ulster Orchestra: The Five Nations, Episode 3

Penny Gore presents music by McGuire, MacCunn Wallace, Mackenzie and MacMillan.

Penny Gore presents the Ulster Orchestra in music by Scottish composers - from Edward McGuire, Hamish MacCunn, William Wallace, Alexander Mackenzie and James MacMillan.

Penny Gore introduces a programme of music by composers from Scotland, with an eclectic mix of works performed by the Ulster Orchestra and BBC Singers.

McGuire: Clyde Built
Ulster Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)

MacCunn: Ship o' the Fiend
Ulster Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)

Mackenzie: Scottish Concerto
David Owen Norris (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)

Wallace: The Passing of Beatrice 
Ulster Orchestra
Nicholas Briathwaite (conductor)

MacMillan: Mairi
BBC Singers
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

MacMillan: The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie 
Ulster Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra: The Five Nations

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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Series of programmes focusing on music from each of the five nations of the British Isles

Series of programmes focusing on music from each of the five nations of the British Isles, fronted by the Ulster Orchestra

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