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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: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Episode 1

Episode 1

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Enescu, Purcell, Steffani, Strauss and Dvorak.

Katie Derham presents the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Enescu, Purcell, Steffani, Strauss and Dvorak, plus a Surprise Piece.

Katie Derham presents a week of performances from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from their 2015/16 concert season. Today's programme features the renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma with the orchestra's chief conductor Mariss Jansons, and includes a work which Jansons programmed as a 'surprise piece' to keep everyone guessing until the end.

2pm:
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No.1
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons

2.15pm:
Purcell: Bid the virtures, bid the Graces (from Come ye sons of art);
Steffani: Spezza amor
Anna Prohaska (soprano)
Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

2.35pm:
Strauss: Don Quixote
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons

3.20pm:
Surprise Piece
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons

3.30pm:
Dvorak: Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
conductor Mariss Jansons.

Afternoon Concert: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Katie Derham hosts a week of performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Katie Derham hosts a week of performances by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from their 2015-16 concert season

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