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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

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Afternoon on 3: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers: Episode 2

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, Episode 2

The BBC SO in concert at London's Barbican, plus the BBC Singers' Choirbook for the Queen.

Presented by Penny Gore. The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Rihm, Mahler, Shostakovich and Dvorak. Plus the BBC Singers in works by Alexander Goehr and Diana Burr.

Today's Afternoon on 3 features a concert the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave at the Barbican in London on Saturday night, featuring songs by Mahler, and Shostakovich's 11th Symphony - written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1905 Russian Revolution. Plus a BBC SO studio performance of Dvorak's mighty Cello Concerto, and more contemporary anthems to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee from the BBC Singers.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm
Rihm: Nähe-Fern-1 (UK premiere)
Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
with Johan Reuter (baritone)
2.35pm
Shostakovich: Symphony no. 11 in G minor (The Year 1905)
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Ingo Metzmacher (conductor).

3.30pm
Choirbook for the Queen:
*Alexander Goehr: Cities and thrones and powers
Diana Burrell: O joyful light
BBC Singers,
*with Stephen Disley (organ),
Stephen Cleobury (conductor).

3.40pm
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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.

Series featuring music performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

Music performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers. Including British composers, with a focus on William Mathias, and a new Choirbook for the Queen, to celebrate the Queen's diamond jubilee

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