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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: Composer-Conductor-Performers

Afternoon Concert: Composer-Conductor-Performers: Episode 3

Composer-Conductor-Performers

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Composer-Conductor-Performers, Episode 3

Elin Manahan Thomas the BBC NOW performing in Cardiff. With Mendelssohn, Schubert, Ravel.

Elin Manahan Thomas introduces the BBC NOW at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Mendelssohn: Overture: Calm sea and a prosperous voyage. Plus Schubert, Ravel, Takemitsu and Chabrier.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales LIVE from Cardiff

Elin Manahan Thomas introduces a live BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, conducted by Andrew Grams. Continuing Afternoon on 3's look at classical music's rich lineage of composer-conductor-performers, the programme begins with Mendelssohn's overture - Calm sea and a prosperous voyage and concludes with Chabrier's Espana. Also including Schubert's Symphony No.3, Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and Toru Takemitsu's 1991 Fantasma-Cantos, a lush single-movement concerto for clarinet and orchestra, showcasing soloist Robert Plane.

Mendelssohn: Overture - Calm sea and a prosperous voyage

Schubert: Symphony No.3 in D major

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole 

Takemitsu: Fantasma-cantos for clarinet and orchestra
Robert Plane, clarinet

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Chabrier: Espana - rhapsody

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Grams, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Composer-Conductor-Performers

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.

Louise Fryer presents a series celebrating musicians who have worked in dual roles

Louise Fryer presents a series celebrating the versatile musicians who have worked in dual roles - composer-conductors, conductor-performers or perfomer-composers

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