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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 Symphony Orchestra and Singers

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers: Episode 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

Episode 3

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

The BBC SO plays Dvorak and Beethoven. Plus the BBC Singers' new Choirbook for the Queen.

Presented by Penny Gore. The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Dvorak, Elgar and Beethoven. Plus the BBC Singers in works by Mathias, Panufnik and David Sawer.

Today's Afternoon on 3 features the BBC Symphony Orchestra performing Dvorak in China and Beethoven in Germany, plus a brand new recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Jean-Guihen Queyras. The BBC Singers feature more choral music by William Mathias, and contemporary anthems written to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee by David Sawer and Roxanna Panufnik.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm
Dvorak: Scherzo capriccioso
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

2.10pm
William Mathias: Carmen paschale, Op. 71 no. 2
BBC Singers,
Stephen Cleobury (conductor).

2.15pm
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

2.45pm
Choirbook for the Queen:
*Roxanna Panufnik: Joy at the sound
David Sawer: Wonder
BBC Singers,
*with Stephen Disley (organ),
Stephen Cleobury (conductor).

2.55pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 8 in F major
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Martyn Brabbins (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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