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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 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Live: Episode 4: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra live from Glasgow

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Payare, Alisa Weilerstein - Dvorak and Shostakovich

Episode 4

Episode 4: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra live from Glasgow

BBC Performing Groups Live

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra live from Glasgow

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Performing Groups Live, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra live from Glasgow

Live from City Halls, Glasgow, the BBC SSO in Mendelssohn, Mahler, Britten and Rossini.

Live from City Halls, Glasgow, Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC SSO in music by Mendelssohn, Mahler, Britten and Rossini. Plus a recording of a work by Rebecca Saunders.

Penny Gore continues the BBC Orchestras live week. Today's programme features the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, live from City Halls in Glasgow with a programme of Mendelssohn, Mahler, Britten and Rossini conducted by Alpesh Chauhan. Then it's back to the studio for more music from the SSO, including Rebecca Saunders' Violin Concerto.

2pm - LIVE from Glasgow City Halls
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas - Overture, Op.95
Mahler: What the Wild Flowers Tell Me, (2nd mvt of Symphony No.3 arr. Britten for small orchestra)
Britten: Lachrymae (Reflections on a Song of Dowland), Op.48a
c.3pm
Rossini: L' Italiana in Algeri - Overture
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op.90 (Italian)
Lise Berthaud (viola)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

c.3.35pm back to the studio with Penny Gore
Saunders: Violin Concerto
Carolin Widmann (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (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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