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Afternoon Concert

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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: BBC Philharmonic at 75

Afternoon Concert: BBC Philharmonic at 75: Episode 4

BBC Philharmonic at 75

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Philharmonic at 75, Episode 4

Louise Fryer presents music for Maundy Thursday, plus Chopin, Bartok, Saint-Saens.

Louise Fryer with a celebration of the BBC Philharmonic, plus Maundy Thursday music. Chopin, orch Stravinsky: Nocturne in A flat. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, plus Saint-Saens.

Louise Fryer continues the week's celebration of the BBC Philharmonic's 75th birthday, including a great showpiece for them, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Plus a live concert by the BBC Singers from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London: Richard Coles introduces a programme of modern British sacred music for Maundy Thursday.

Haydn: Symphony no. 26 in D minor "Lamentatione"
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Kraemer (conductor)

2.15pm
LIVE from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, in London, Richard Coles presents a concert of modern British sacred music for Maundy Thursday. 

BBC Singers 
David Hill - conductor
Stephen Farr - organ 

Kenneth Leighton: Crucifixus pro nobis

Matthew Martin: Quadraginta annis

Gabriel Jackson: O sacrum convivium

Alan Ridout: movements from The Seven Last Words

Patric Standford: motets from Tenebrae Responsories

Giles Swayne: movements from The Stations of the Cross

Francis Pott: My song is love unknown 

3.30pm
Chopin orch. Stravinsky: Nocturne in A flat 
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra 
BBC Philharmonic
Cornelius Meister (conductor)

4.15pm
Saint-Saens: Symphony No 3 in C minor "Organ" 
Jonathan Scott (organ)
BBC Philharmonic
Ludovic Morlot (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Philharmonic at 75

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.

Series celebrating the BBC Philharmonic's 75th birthday season in 2010

Series celebrating the BBC Philharmonic's 75th birthday season with some of their best performances from 2009

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