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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 Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1

Penny Gore introduces a performance by the BBC Singers at the Pays de Hanau Festival.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Singers performing at the Pays de Hanau Festival in France and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich's Violin Concerto, with soloist Sarah Chang.

Today's programme, celebrating the work of the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra includes a concert given by the BBC Singers at the Pays de Hanau Festival in France. And the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich's Violin Concerto with soloist Sarah Chang.

Presented by Penny Gore

2pm
Timothy Jackson: No Answer 
BBC Singers
Onyx Brass
Stephen Disley (organ)
Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)

Richard Peat: Fiery the Angels (first performance)
Onyx Brass

2.35
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor
Sarah Chang (violin) 
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

3.10
Finzi: Dies Natalis
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.40
Delius: A Late Lark 
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.45
Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm!, BWV.229
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Purcell: Hear my Prayer, Z.15 
Chilcott: My Prayer
Holst: Nunc Dimittis
Sanstrom: Lobet den Herrn
Mendelssohn: Die Deutsche Liturgie
Daniel-Lesur: Le Cantique des Cantiques
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

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Penny Gore with a series celebrating the work of the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes celebrating the work of the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

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