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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: Best of 2013

Afternoon Concert: Best of 2013: Episode 4

Best of 2013

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Best of 2013, Episode 4

Penny Gore with music by Vaughan Williams, David Bedford, Francis Grier and Shostakovich.

BBC SO and Chorus in Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony. BBC Singers in David Bedford: May God Shield You On Every Step. BBC NOW in Grier: Prayer. Shostakovich: Symphony No 11.

Afternoon on 3 celebrates the BBC's orchestras and choirs with some of their highlight performances from 2013. Today you can hear two major twentieth-century symphonies played at the 2013 BBC Proms: the opening night performance of Vaughan Williams's Sea Symphony by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with the BBC Proms Youth Choir, and Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Presented by Penny Gore

2pm
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Sally Matthews (soprano),
Roderick Williams (baritone),
BBC Proms Youth Choir,
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra,
Sakari Oramo (conductor).

3.05pm
David Bedford: May God Shield You On Every Step
Francis Grier: Prayer
BBC Singers,
Stephen Disley (organ),
Stephen Cleobury (conductor).

3.20pm
Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 in G minor (The Year 1905)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Best of 2013

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Penny Gore presents highlight performances given by the BBC's orchestras and choirs

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