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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 Performing Groups Live

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Live: Episode 1: BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Episode 1

Episode 1: BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC Performing Groups Live

BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Performing Groups Live, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Live concerts featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Live from Maida Vale, the BBC Symphony Orchestra performs music by Andrei Golovin and Tchaikovsky. Plus direct from Cardiff, the BBC NOW plays works by Prokofiev.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Orchestras live week. Today's programme begins live at Maida Vale in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mischa Damev. They're joined by Esther Yoo for Andrei Golovin's Canto d'atesa. Then to Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff for a live concert of Prokofiev performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Gabriele Leporatti performs the Piano Concerto No.1, and David Kempster is the baritone in Lieutenant Kije. 

2pm - LIVE from Maida Vale
Presented by Ian Skelly
Andrei Golovin: Canto d'attesa 
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op.13 (Winter daydreams)
Esther Yoo (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Mischa Damev (conductor)

3.15pm - LIVE from Hoddinott Hall
Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges - Suite, Op.33b [rev.1924]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, Op.10
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije - Suite, Op.60
Gabriele Leporatti (piano)
David Kempster (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Live

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.

Live performances from the BBC's performing groups as well as the Ulster Orchestra

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring live performances from the BBC's performing groups as well as the Ulster Orchestra

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