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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: Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra: Episode 3: Watford Colosseum

Watford Colosseum

Episode 3

Episode 3: Watford Colosseum

Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra, Watford Colosseum

BBC CO/Keith Lockhart in Balakirev, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Britten, Copland and Ravel.

In a performance from the Watford Colosseum, Penny Gore presents the BBC CO under Keith Lockhart in music by Balakirev, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Britten, Copland and Ravel.

Louise Fryer presents live from the Watford Colosseum

BBC Concert Orchestra
Jose Franch-Ballester clarinet
Keith Lockhart - conductor

Balakirev: Overture on 3 Russian Folk Songs 

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - excerpts

Prokofiev: Classical Symphony 

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Ravel: Mother Goose - suite.

Afternoon Concert: Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra

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.

Penny Gore presents a series of performances focusing on the BBC Concert Orchestra

Penny Gore presents performances focusing on the BBC Concert Orchestra, one of the nation's most versatile orchestras, featuring repertoire ranging from classical to jazz, via film and pop

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