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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

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Afternoon Concert: Afternoon on 3: Episode 2

Episode 2

Afternoon on 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Afternoon on 3, Episode 2

Katie Derham with music by Verdi: 4 Pezzi sacri; Macbeth (excerpt); 8 Romances.

Music by Verdi and contemporaries. Verdi: 4 Pezzi sacri. Verdi: Macbeth (Act 3, Sc 1 ballet music). Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique. Verdi, orch Berio: 8 Romances.

Katie Derham continues her birthday celebration of Verdi with a focus on his sacred music

Verdi: 4 Pezzi sacri: Ave Maria (Scala enigmatica armonizzata ...), Stabat mater, Laudi alla Vergine, Te Deum
Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano)
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons (conductor)

2.45pm
Verdi: Macbeth (Act 3, Scene 1 Ballet music)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård (conductor)

3pm
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Op.14
BBC Philharmonic
Yutaka Sado (conductor)

3.55pm
Verdi orch. Berio: 8 Romances
Atalla Ayan (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Afternoon on 3

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.

Katie Derham celebrates 200 years since the birth of Giuseppe Verdi

Katie Derham celebrates 200 years since the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, with performances of some of his most famous works. Plus pieces by his contemporaries and composers said to bear his legacy

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