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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 Concert Orchestra

BBC Philharmonic

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Live: Episode 5: The BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic live

Episode 5

Episode 5: The BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic live

BBC Performing Groups Live

The BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic live

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Performing Groups Live, The BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic live

The BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic live in concert.

The BBC CO live from Maida Vale, in Coates, Tovey, Novello and John Blackwood McEwen. Plus direct from Salford, BBC Philharmonc in Dutilleux, Delius, Vaughan Williams and Ravel.

Penny Gore completes her week of BBC Orchestras live in concert. Today the BBC Concert Orchestra is live at Maida Vale with a varied programme including a rare chance to hear the Solway Symphony by Scottish composer John Blackwood McEwen. Then we're live at MediaCityUK for a concert by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Wilson with a programme of Dutilleux, Delius, Vaughan Williams and Ravel. 

2pm - LIVE from Maida Vale
Presented by Ian Skelly
Coates: I Heard You Singing 
Coates: Birdsong at Eventide 
Bramwell Tovey: Urban Runway
Novello: My Life Belongs to You
Novello: We'll Gather Lilacs
John Blackwood McEwen: Symphony in C sharp minor (1911) 'Solway'
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

3.15 - LIVE from MediaCityUK, Salford
Presented by Tom Redmond
Dutilleux, orch Hesketh: Au Gre des ondes (UK premiere)
Delius: Brigg Fair
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Robin Tritschler (tenor)
BBC Philharmonic 
John Wilson (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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