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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: On Tour and at Home with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: On Tour and at Home with the BBC Symphony Orchestra: Episode 4

On Tour and at Home with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, On Tour and at Home with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Episode 4

BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Bellini, Britten, Debussy, Varese, Liszt and Elgar.

Penny Gore presents music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Bellini: Overture (I Capuleti ed i Montecchi). Britten: Les Illuminations. Debussy: La mer. Varese: Ameriques.

Presented by Penny Gore

Bellini: Overture to I Capuleti ed i Montecchi 
Alexander Shelley, conductor

Britten: Les Illuminations 
John Mark Ainsley, tenor
James Conlon, conductor

2.30pm
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
James Conlon, conductor

2.45pm
Debussy: La Mer 
James Conlon, conductor

3.15pm
Varese: Ameriques 
James Conlon, conductor

3.35pm
Liszt: Legend no. 2 - San Francesco di Paola Walking on the Waves
Damian Iorio, conductor

4.00pm
Elgar: Cello Concerto 
Andreas Brantelid, cello
Arild Remmereit, conductor

Rodrigo: Cuatro madrigals amatorios
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Jakub Hrusa, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: On Tour and at Home with the BBC Symphony 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.

Concerts given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Germany, Spain and Greece

Penny Gore presents a series of concerts given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Germany, Spain and Greece with chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek

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