Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

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: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

BBC Philharmonic

Afternoon Concert: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children: Episode 5: Handel's Zadok the Priest

Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave

Episode 5

Episode 5: Handel's Zadok the Priest

Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

Handel's Zadok the Priest

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ten Pieces to Inspire Children, Handel's Zadok the Priest

Katie Derham features Handel's Zadok the Priest. Plus Bax, Mahler, Beethoven and Brahms.

Katie Derham presents Handel's Zadok the Priest as part of Ten Pieces. Plus Bax: Overture, Elegy and Rondo. Mahler: Todtenfeier. Beethoven: Violin Concerto. Brahms: Symphony No 3.

With Katie Derham

With "Ten Pieces" the BBC is aiming to inspire a generation of children in primary schools to get creative with Classical Music, and every weekday this week an next, Afternoon on 3 offers a chance to hear the whole works at the beginning of each programme at 2pm.

Today the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales perform Handel's Zadok the Priest.

For more about Ten Pieces visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vs08w

The rest of the programme features the BBC Philharmonic in recent recordings, including Mahler's Todtenfeier with soprano Hillevi Martinpelto, and Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Elena Urioste.

2pm
Ten Pieces
Handel
Zadok the Priest, HWV.258
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

2.05
Bax
Overture, Elegy and Rondo
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)

2.30
Mahler
Todtenfeier (orig vers)
BBC Philharmonic
Hillevi Martinpelto (sop)
John Storgards (conductor)

3.00
Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D, Op 61
Elena Urioste (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Farnes (conductor)

3.50
Brahms
Symphony No.3 in F
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Farnes (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

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.

Series featuring complete performances of works in Radio 3's Ten Pieces project

Series featuring complete performances of works in Radio 3's Ten Pieces project, which aims to inspire a generation of children in primary schools to engage with ten different classical pieces

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Afternoon Concert

Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

Episode 5: Handel's Zadok the Priest

Contributors

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3