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: Proms 2015 Repeats

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2015 Repeats: Prom 43: Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7

Britain at War - Outbreak

31/08/2015

Prom 43: Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7

Proms 2015 Repeats

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Proms 2015 Repeats, Prom 43: Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7

Osmo Vanska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7.

An all-Sibelius Prom featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vanska. Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat; Symphony No 6 in D minor; Symphony No 7 in C.

Afternoon on 3 - with Penny Gore.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä, at the BBC Proms. Sibelius's final Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 and 7.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch at the Royal Albert Hall

2pm
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major

2.35pm
Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D minor

3pm
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä (conductor)

Who better to bring this year's cycle of Sibelius symphonies to a close than fellow countryman Osmo Vänskä, with one exceptional cycle already completed on disc and another currently under way. 'These symphonies of mine are more confessions of faith than are my other works,' wrote Sibelius, but the later symphonies were hard-won confessions in which the composer's creativity struggled with self-doubt and hostile critics. The results, however, are exceptional, from the soaring horn-led 'swan hymn' of the Fifth to the innocent beauty of the Sixth and the single-movement Seventh, with its total symphonic unity and an ending that has been called 'the grandest celebration of C major there ever was'.

[First broadcast on Monday 17th August]

Followed by a selection of recording from this week's Proms Artists.

Afternoon Concert: Proms 2015 Repeats

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.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2015 BBC Proms season

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Afternoon Concert

Proms 2015 Repeats

Prom 43: Sibelius - Symphonies Nos 5, 6 and 7

Contributors

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3