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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: BBC Performing Groups

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups: Episode 5

Episode 5

BBC Performing Groups

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Performing Groups, Episode 5

Choral music for Christmas and winter from the BBC Singers and Stephen Cleobury.

From St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London, Christopher Cook presents the BBC Singers under Stephen Cleobury in choral and organ music for Christmas and the winter season.

Penny Gore concludes this week's celebration of the BBC's performing groups in concert across the nation, featuring music by Tchaikovsky every day. 

LIVE from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge in London, Christopher Cook presents a concert of choral and organ music for Christmas and the winter season from the BBC Singers conducted by Stephen Cleobury, with organist Stephen Disley. The menu includes music by Bax, Liszt and Tchaikovsky alongside more recent musical forays into the dark and wintry days of cold December from Bob Chilcott and Richard Rodney Bennett, and the first performance of a newly-commissioned piece: Winter Heavens by Gabriel Jackson.

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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