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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: Tippett Plus

Afternoon Concert: Tippett Plus: Episode 2

Tippett Plus

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Tippett Plus, Episode 2

Katie Derham presents music by Berlioz, Tippett, Stephen Hough and Brahms.

With Katie Derham. Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture. Tippett: Concertos for orchestra; for violin, viola, cello and orchestra. Hough: Missa Mirabilis. Brahms: Piano Sonata No 3.

Afternoon on 3 celebrates the music of Michael Tippett with a live concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra including his Concerto for Orchestra. 

There's more from Stephen Hough as both composer and pianist: the BBC Symphony Chorus joins the Orchestra for his Missa Mirabilis, and Hough moves to the keyboard to perform Brahms's Third Piano Sonata. 

Plus Tippett's Triple Concerto in a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with the Leopold String Trio as soloists.

Presented by Katie Derham and Penny Gore.

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Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Tippett: Concerto for orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Gourlay (conductor).

2.45pm
Stephen Hough: Missa Mirabilis
BBC Symphony Chorus,
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
David Robertson (conductor).

3.10pm
Brahms: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Stephen Hough (piano).

3.45pm
Tippett: Concerto for violin, viola, cello and orchestra
Leopold String Trio,
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Tippett Plus

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.

Programmes celebrating the music of Michael Tippett with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Katie Derham introduces a series of programmes celebrating the music of Michael Tippett with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

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