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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: Music in the Great War

Afternoon Concert: Music in the Great War: Episode 10: The World at War: Memorial

The World at War: Memorial

Episode 10

Episode 10: The World at War: Memorial

Music in the Great War

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Music in the Great War, The World at War: Memorial

Katie Derham introduces music by Nielsen, Bliss, Stanford and Mozart.

Katie Derham introduces music in memorial of the fallen in war. Nielsen: Symphony No 4. Bliss: Morning Heroes. Stanford: A Song of Agincourt. Mozart: Symphony No 31.

Katie Derham closes Radio 3's Music in the Great War series: today, a memorial to the fallen with music by Carl Nielsen, his Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable, written against the backdrop of the war, exalting the human spirit and what he saw as the 'elemental will to live'. It's followed by Sir Arthur Bliss's Morning Heroes, a symphony for orator, chorus and orchestra dedicated to his brother 'and other comrades killed in battle'.
Closing the afternoon, two works with the Ulster Orchestra taken from recently recorded concerts: first, Charles Villiers Stanford's A Song of Agincourt, then Mozart's Symphony No. 31, 'Paris'.

C. Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 'The Inextinguishable'
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

2.35pm
A. Bliss: Morning Heroes, a Symphony for Orator, Chorus and Orchestra
John Westbrook, orator
Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Groves, conductor

3.35pm
C.V. Stanford: A Song of Agincourt, Op. 168
Ulster Orchestra
Howard Shelley, conductor

4.00pm
W.A. Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D major, 'Paris' K.297
Ulster Orchestra
Alan Buribayev, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Music in the Great War

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Penny Gore introduces programmes featuring music connected with the First World War

Penny Gore introduces a series of programmes featuring music connected with the First World War

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