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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' Best of 2016

BBC Singers

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups' Best of 2016: Episode 1: BBC Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Episode 1

Episode 1: BBC Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Performing Groups' Best of 2016

BBC Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Performing Groups' Best of 2016, BBC Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

With the BBC Singers playing entries for the 2016 Radio 3 Carol Competition.

Presented by Verity Sharp. With the BBC Singers playing the entries for the Radio 3 Carol Competition, plus the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by MacMillan and Mahler.

Verity Sharp presents the BBC Performing Groups' Best of 2016 this week. Today's programme includes the BBC Singers in the third annual Breakfast Carol Competition. David Hill conducts the prize-winning entries.

2.00pm
Petroc Trelawny joins BBC Singers and their chief conductor David Hill in their Maida Vale Studios in London for a chance to hear the shortlisted entries from this year's BBC Radio 3 Carol Competition. The works were performed in front of a live audience, including the composers, and there is a chance to hear from the composers about their interpretation and inspiration behind setting the text, "Alleluya! A new work is come on hand" 

2.45pm
Verity Sharp presents the rest of the afternoon: James MacMillan's Violin Concerto and Mahler's 1st Symphony with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles

James MacMillan: Violin Concerto
Vadim Repin (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

3.15pm
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups' Best of 2016

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Verity Sharp presents highlight performances given by BBC performing groups in 2016

Verity Sharp presents programmes featuring highlight performances given by BBC performing groups in 2016

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