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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: 70th Anniversary Archive

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Singers

Afternoon Concert: 70th Anniversary Archive: Episode 2

Episode 2

70th Anniversary Archive

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 70th Anniversary Archive, Episode 2

Verity Sharp with music by Brian Irvine, Sibelius, Ravel, Shostakovich and Gabriel Jackson

With Verity Sharp. Brian Irvine: Big Daddy Motorhead. Sibelius: The Wood Nymph; Symphony No 5. Ravel: Sheherazade. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 2. Jackson: Symphony.

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Third Programme, we've mined the BBC performing groups' archives for music by Sibelius, Ravel and Shostakovich.

Presented by Verity Sharp

2.00pm
Brian Irvine: Big Daddy Motorhead (world premiere performance, 2009)
Ulster Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery (conductor) 

2.10pm
Sibelius: The Wood Nymph, Op. 15 (UK premiere performance, 1997)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)

2.30pm
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)

2.45pm
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.2, Op. 126
Ailsa Weilerstein (cello)
Ulster Orchestra
Rafael Payare (conductor)

3.20pm
Gabriel Jackson: Choral Symphony
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor)

3.45pm
Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E flat, Op. 82
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)

Radio 3's 70th season, celebrating seven decades of pioneering music and culture since the founding of the Third Programme.

Afternoon Concert: 70th Anniversary Archive

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.

Verity Sharp presents a series of programmes celebrating the 70th anniversary of Radio 3

Verity Sharp presents a series of programmes celebrating the 70th anniversary of Radio 3 and the Third Programme, with the BBC performing groups in archive performances of British music

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