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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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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from the Watford Colosseum

BBC Concert Orchestra

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from the Watford Colosseum: Episode 2: BBC CO, Britten, Farnon, Shore, Walton (part 2)

BBC CO - Glazunov, Elgar, Bennett, Bax, Lehar, J Strauss II

Episode 2

Episode 2: BBC CO, Britten, Farnon, Shore, Walton (part 2)

Live from the Watford Colosseum

BBC CO, Britten, Farnon, Shore, Walton (part 2)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Live from the Watford Colosseum, BBC CO, Britten, Farnon, Shore, Walton (part 2)

The BBC Concert Orchestra under Keith Lockhart in a performance of Walton's Symphony No 1.

Live from the Watford Colosseum, a concert featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra under Keith Lockhart concludes with a performance of Walton's Symphony No 1.

Live from the Watford Colosseum
Presented by Penny Gore

The BBC Concert Orchestra plays music from Britain and Canada, including the European premiere of Howard Shore's 'Mythic Gardens', and William Walton's Symphony No 1.

Benjamin Britten Canadian Carnival
Robert Farnon Lake of the Woods
Howard Shore Mythic Gardens

8.20 Interval

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William Walton Symphony No 1

BBC Concert Orchestra
Sophie Shao (cello)
conductor Keith Lockhart

Live from the Watford Colosseum, Penny Gore presents a concert of music from Britain and Canada, including the European premiere of Howard Shore's 'Mythic Gardens', played by cellist Sophie Shao, for whom it was written. In the second half Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a landmark of British symphonic writing, William Walton's Symphony No 1.

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.

The BBC Concert Orchestra in music by Britten, Robert Farnon, Howards Shore and Walton

Penny Gore presents a performance in which the BBC Concert Orchestra plays music from Britain and Canada, by Britten, Robert Farnon, Howards Shore and Walton

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