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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: BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers

BBC Concert Orchestra

BBC Singers

Afternoon Concert: BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers, Episode 2

BBC CO in Copland, David Lang, John Alden Carpenter and Bernstein. BBC Singers in Tavener.

BBC CO in Copland: Music for the Theatre. David Lang: Concerto (World to Come). John Alden Carpenter: Krazy Kat. Bernstein: Fancy Free. Plus BBC Singers in Tavener: Ikon of Light.

With Penny Gore, featuring the BBC Singers and the BBC Concert Orchestra. 
The UK premiere of David Lang's Cello Concerto provided the title for 'The World to Come' concert, recorded last month at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and is the companion to last night's Radio 3 Live in Concert.

Copland: Music for the Theatre
David Lang: Cello Concerto (World to come)
John Alden Carpenter: Krazy Kat (jazz ballet)
Bernstein: Fancy Free
Maya Beiser (cello)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart

Tavener: Ikon of Light
BBC Singers, members of the Heath Quartet, conductor James Morgan.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Concert 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.

Penny Gore presents performances given by the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes focusing on performances given by the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers

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