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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 4

Episode 4

Light Fantastic

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Light Fantastic, Episode 4

Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic in music by Rossini, Foulds, Arnold and Nielsen.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Philharmonic in Rossini's Overture to The Silken Ladder, John Foulds's Keltic Suite, Malcolm Arnold's Solitaire and part of Nielsen's Aladdin suite.

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, from the epic film scores of Korngold and Steiner, to the much-loved British works of Elgar, John Ireland and Eric Coates. 

Today's main treat is a live concert from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester, conducted by Matthew Coorey and opening with Rossini's Overture to The Silken Ladder. The programme includes John Foulds' Keltic Suite (1911), which has become a light music classic thanks to its often-arranged slow movement, The Keltic Lament. Plus the ballet-score, Solitaire by English composer, trumpeter and conductor Malcolm Arnold; and to finish a selection from Nielsen's magical Aladdin suite.

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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