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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: The Singing Will Never Be Done

Afternoon Concert: The Singing Will Never Be Done: Episode 1

The Singing Will Never Be Done

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, The Singing Will Never Be Done, Episode 1

Katie Derham presents music by Stanford, Bantock, Bax, Reger, Mahler and Strauss.

Katie Derham presents choral and vocal-orchestral music featuring the BBC's orchestras and choirs. With works by Stanford, Bantock, Bax, Reger, Mahler and Strauss.

Katie Derham presents a week-long celebration of the human voice in performances by the BBC's Orchestras and choirs, including some music appropriate to the Christmas season. the featured ensembles are the BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Stanford: The Bluebird
Emma Tring (soprano),
Brighton Festival Chorus,
James Morgan (conductor).

Max Reger: Mariä Wiegenlied
Christine Brewer (soprano),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

2.05pm
Stanford: Magnificat in B flat major, Op 164
BBC Singers,
James Morgan (conductor).

Josef Strauss: Geheime Anziehungskräfte (Dynamiden) - Waltz Op 173
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Johannes Wildner (conductor).

2.30pm
Bantock: Vanity of Vanities - Symphony for chorus
Brighton Festival Chorus,
BBC Singers,
James Morgan (conductor).

3.05pm
Mahler: Symphony No 4 (chamber version)
Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Lawrence Renes (conductor).

4.00pm
Bax: Mater ora filium
BBC Singers,
James Morgan (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: The Singing Will Never Be Done

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.

Celebrating the human voice with performances by the BBC's orchestras and choirs

Katie Derham presents a series of programmes celebrating the human voice in performances by the BBC's orchestras and choirs

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