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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 Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, Episode 1

Penny Gore introduces music including Stravinsky, Korngold, Weir, Beethoven and Rushton.

Penny Gore introduces music by Stravinsky, Korngold, Weir, Rushton, kemal, Frances-Hoad, Holloway, Howells and Beethoven.

Penny Gore presents a week of recent recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra including Stravinsky's Scherzo a la Russe and Korngold's Marchenbilder conducted by Michael Seal. The young Chinese pianist Fang Yuan joins the orchestra with the Czech conductor Marek Sedivy in a performance of Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto. Plus Verity Sharp presents a concert by the BBC Singers of music by Judith Weir, Byrd and Howells.

Presented by Penny Gore.

14:00
STRAVINSKY
Scherzo à la Russe
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)

14:05
KORNGOLD
Märchenbilder, Op.3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)

14:25
BBC Singers in Concert
Presented by Verity Sharp

JUDITH WEIR Ave Regina Caelorum 
JUDITH WEIR Truly I Tell You 
KEMAL Psalm 91
CHERYL FRANCES-HOAD Psalm 1
BYRD Miserere mei 
HOWELLS Rhapsody IV Bene psallite in vociferatione 
HOLLOWAY Three Psalms: Psalm 39 
EDWARD RUSHTON Psalm 149 
JUDITH WEIR A blue true dream of sky
JUDITH WEIR The Song sung True

Stephen Farr (organ)
Chi-chi Nwanoku (double bass)
Olivia Robinson (soprano)
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor)

15:45
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.1 in C
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fang Yuan (piano)
Marek Sedivy (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony 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 recent recordings made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring recent recordings made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

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