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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: BBC Performing Groups

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Performing Groups

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Performing Groups, Episode 1

With the BBC SO in Britten, Sibelius and Walton, and the BBC CO in Tchaikovsky.

Penny Gore presents a concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. Sibelius: Twelfth Night. Plus the BBC CO in Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act 1).

Penny Gore presents a week celebrating the BBC's own performing groups in concert across the nation, featuring music by Tchaikovsky every day. 

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, recorded in concert at the Barbican in London on Saturday evening, start the week by juxtaposing Sibelius's exotic Belshazzar's Feast with Walton's more famous version. The conductor is Edward Gardner and the baritone soloist Gerald Finley, who also sings three of Sibelius's most dramatic songs. 

Then it's the turn of the BBC Concert Orchestra, who've been invited by their Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth - also Music Director of the Royal Ballet - to be guest orchestra at Covent Garden in Tchaikovsky festive ballet The Nutcracker.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups

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 celebration the BBC's own performing groups

Penny Gore presents a celebration the BBC's own performing groups, with concerts given across the nation. Featuring music by Tchaikovsky in every programme

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