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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 the Road

Afternoon Concert: On the Road: Episode 5

Episode 5

On the Road

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, On the Road, Episode 5

With Jonathan Swain. BBC Singers in Bach, Vaughan Williams, Purcell, Chilcott and Holst.

With Jonathan Swain. BBC Singers in Bach, Vaughan Williams, Purcell, Chilcott, Holst, Schumann and Mendelsson, and BBS SO in Shostakovich, Dvorak, Janacek and Maxwell Davies.

Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Two concerts given by the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour. The BBC Singers perform in a Romanesque abbey near Strasbourg, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra is in San Sebastian in Spain's Basque region.

Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
Vaughan Williams: Kyrie and Gloria (Mass in G minor)
Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord
Bob Chilcott: My prayer (after Henry Purcell)
Holst: Nunc dimittis
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor)

Shostakovich: Symphony No 1
Dvorak: Otello Overture
Janacek: Cunning Little Vixen Suite
Maxwell Davies: Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Sven-David Sandstrom: Lobet den Herrn
Schumann: Vier doppelchorige Gesange, Op 141
Mendelssohn: Kyrie and Ehre Sei Gott
Daniel-Lesur: Le cantique des cantiques
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: On the Road

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