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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: Light Fantastic

Afternoon Concert: Light Fantastic: Episode 1

Episode 1

Light Fantastic

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Light Fantastic, Episode 1

With Penny Gore. The BBC CO performs performs Italian music, including famous arias.

With Penny Gore. The BBC Concert Orchestra is joined by soprano Svetlana Ignatovich and tenor Ben Johnson to perform Italian music, including famous arias.

Penny Gore presents a week of light music in its many guises, continuing the celebrations of the Light Fantastic Weekend.

Featuring performances from the BBC Orchestras and brass music from the Cory Band, you can hear a daily Rossini Overture plus a whole range of music at the popular end of the classical spectrum - from the enduring popular Italian classics of Verdi and Puccini, via the sweeping film scores of Korngold and Steiner, to the much-loved British works of Elgar, John Ireland and Eric Coates. 

Our Thursday Opera Matinee takes a stroll on the lighter side too with the quintessentially British partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan and their comic masterpiece, The Mikado. The Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus, under the baton of Sir Andrew Davies, relishes the chance to perform this joyous Japanese jape.

In today's programme, the BBC Concert Orchestra is joined by soprano Svetlana Ignatovich and tenor Ben Johnson to open a box of Italian delights. Johannes Wildner conducts a concert of well-known arias from Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti and Tosti, and kicks off with the legendary Overture to Rossini's last opera, William Tell.

Afternoon Concert: Light Fantastic

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.

Penny Gore presents a selection of light music in its many guises

To accompany Radio 3's Light Fantastic series, Penny Gore presents light music in its many guises, featuring performances from the BBC Orchestras and brass music from the Cory Band

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