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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

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Singers

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers: Episode 2

Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave

Episode 2

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, Episode 2

Including the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing music by Berlioz, Adams, Janacek and Mozart.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Berlioz, Adams, Janacek and Mozart. Plus the BBC Singers in works by Bernard Hughes, Robin Holloway, Beamish, MacMillan and Bingham.

Katie Derham presents a week of music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, including highlights from the BBC SO's recent visit to the Prague Summer Festival, and the BBC Singers in repertoire by Bernard Hughes and James Macmillan.

2pm
Berlioz: The Trojans - Act 1: Trojan March
BBC SO
Andrew Davis, conductor

Bernard Hughes: Two Choral Fanfares
BBC Singers
Paul Brough, conductor 

c.2.20
John Adams: Violin Concerto
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton, conductor 

c.2.50
Robin Holloway: Madrigals
BBC Singers
Charles Peebles, conductor

Sally Beamish: Gaudent in Coelis
BBC Singers
Charles Peebles, conductor 

c.3.00
Janacek: The Ballad of Blaník
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major K.622
Sangyoon Kim, clarinet
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo 

c.3.45pm
Bernard Hughes: Three Swans; The winter it is past; anyone lived in a pretty how town
BBC Singers
Paul Brough, conductor

c.4.10
James MacMillan: Mairi
BBC Singers
Richard Pearce, conductor 

c.4.20
Judith Bingham: Annunciation
Stephen Farr, organ.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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Katie Derham music performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

Katie Derham presents a series of programmes featuring music performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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