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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: Baroque Spring

Afternoon Concert: Baroque Spring: Episode 3

Baroque Spring

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Baroque Spring, Episode 3

Penny Gore presents the Vespers by Nicola Antonio Porpora, sometime rival to Handel.

Penny Gore presents Baroque music from around Europe. With a rare chance to hear a complete performance of the Vespers by Porpora, a teacher of the young Haydn.

Penny Gore pesents the Vespers for the Assumption by Nicola Antonio Porpora.
The fabled Naples-born singing teacher of the great castrati of the day, sometime rival to Handel in London and teacher of the young Haydn in Vienna, Porpora was once one of the most fashionable composers of the Baroque.
This afternoon there is a rare chance to hear a complete performance of his extended Vespro per la Festività dell'Assunta which was first performed in Venice in 1744 by the girls of the Ospedaletto, one of four orphanages that specialised in music, and a rival to Vivaldi's Pietà. Maestro Porpora of the Ospedaletto would later become a character in George Sand's novel 'Consuelo.'

Porpora: Vespro per la Festività dell'Assunta
Laudate pueri Dominum
Nisi Dominus
Laetatus sum
Salve Regina
Lauda Jerusalem

Marilia Vargas and Michiko Takahashi (sopranos), Delphine Galou (contralto), Maîtrise de Bretagne, Parlement de Musique, Martin Gester (director).

Afternoon Concert: Baroque Spring

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 series of programmes featuring Baroque music from around Europe

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring Baroque music-making from around Europe

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