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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: Thursday Opera Matinee

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: Episode 5: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

Episode 5

Episode 5: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert

Penny Gore presents Monteverdi's seminal opera L'Orfeo, performed at La Scala Milan.

Penny Gore presents Monteverdi's seminal opera L'Orfeo, performed at La Scala Milan, with early music specialist Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting.

Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo from La Scala, Milan

Penny Gore presents Monteverdi's seminal opera L'Orfeo, recorded at La Scala Milan and conducted by early music specialist, Rinaldo Alessandrini. And the BBC Scottish SO play music infused with the spirit of dance.

Monteverdi 
L'Orfeo 

La Musica / Echo......Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) 
Orfeo......Georg Nigl (tenor)
Euridice......Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) 
Silvia /Speranza......Sara Mingardo (contralto) 
Caronte......Luigi De Donato (bass) 
Proserpina......Raffaella Milanesi (soprano) 
Plutone......Giovanni B. Parodi (bass) 
Furio Zanasi (tenor) Apollo 
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan 
Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor

3.50pm
Ravel: Menuet antique
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher, conductor

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 
Stefan Solyom, conductor

4.20pm
Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee

Thursday Opera Matinee

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Series of fifteen operas recently recorded at some of world's greatest opera houses

Series of operas performed at venues around the world. Singers such as Bryn Terfel, Anna Netrebko, Simon Keenlyside and Joyce DiDonato perform under conductors including Seiji Ozawa and Simon Rattle

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