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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 Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra: Episode 1

BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1

Louise Fryer with music by Glinka, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Standford and Bach

Louise Fryer presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week: Glinka, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Standford and Bach.

Louise Fryer presents a week of programmes featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week. As part of Baroque Spring on Radio 3, the BBC Singers perform motets by J S Bach and his predecessors and successors in the post of Cantor at St Thomas's Church in Leipzig. The BBC Symphony play pieces by Prokofiev and his Russian forefathers and contemporaries.

Glinka: Overture to A Life for the Tsar
BBC SO,
Conductor Mikhail Agrest.

2.10pm
J S Bach: Jesu meine Freude, BWV.227
BBC Singers,
David Hill (conductor),
Stephen Farr (organ).

2.30pm
Prokofiev: The Prodigal Son - Symphonic Suite, Op. 46a
BBC SO,
Conductor Mikhail Agrest.

Sethus Calvisius: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
BBC Singers,
David Hill (conductor),
Stephen Farr (organ).

2.55pm
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
BBC SO,
Conductor David Robertson.

3.15pm
Patric Standford: A Mass for Hildegard of Bingen
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.

3.30pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B minor (Pathétique)
BBC SO,
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

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.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week

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