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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

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra in Concert

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11/03/2016

BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra in Concert

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra in Concert

Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge, the BBC Singers in music from New Zealand and Australia

Live from St Paul's Knightsbridge, the BBC Singers perform music from New Zealand and Australia. Plus the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Kodaly, Dubugonon and Prokofiev.

Ian Skelly presents a live concert from St Paul's Knightsbridge by the BBC Singers with music from New Zealand and Australia as part of Afternoon on 3's Southern Hemisphere season. Then back to the studio with Katie Derham for a concert the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave at the Barbican last month.
2pm - LIVE presented by Ian Skelly

Leonie Holmes: Through Coiled Stillness
David Griffiths: Lie Deep My Love
Jenny McLeod: Childhood
Stephen Leek: Great Southern Spirits
BBC Singers
Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

c.3.05pm presented by Katie Derham

Kodály: Háry János - Suite
Richard Dubugnon: Klavieriana - Piano Concerto (world premiere)
c.4pm
Prokofiev arr. Christopher Palmer: War and Peace - Suite
Noriko Ogawa (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Fabien Gabel (conductor).

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