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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 Performing Groups Live

BBC Philharmonic

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Live: Episode 2: The Ulster Orchestra Live

Ulster Orchestra - Haydn, Strauss, Wagner, Bartok

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Ulster Orchestra Live

BBC Performing Groups Live

The Ulster Orchestra Live

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Performing Groups Live, The Ulster Orchestra Live

Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast, the Ulster Orchestra in Mozart, Rota and Poulenc.

Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast, Andrew Gourlay conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Mozart, Rota and Poulenc. Plus BBC orchestras in music by Prokofiev, Mussorgsky and Ginastera.

Penny Gore continues the BBC Orchestras live week. Today we're live at Ulster Hall in Belfast for a concert by the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Andrew Gourlay. They're joined by New Generation Artist Peter Moore for Nino Rota's Trombone Concerto. Then back to the studio with Penny Gore for a performance of Prokofiev's Winter Bonfire, recorded yesterday, for which the BBC NOW were joined by boys' choir Cor Heol y March and narrater David Kempster. 

2pm - LIVE from Ulster Hall
Presented by John Toal
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297/300a (Paris) 
Nino Rota: Trombone Concerto
Poulenc Sinfonietta
Peter Moore, trombone
Ulster Orchestra
Andrew Gourlay, conductor

c.3.10pm back to the studio with Penny Gore
Prokofiev: Winter Bonfire, Op.122
David Kempster (narrator)
Cor Heol y March
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c.3.30
Musorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition, orch. Ravel
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Ginastera: Concierto argentino for piano and orchestra
Xiayin Wang (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (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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