Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers live at Temple Church

Penny Gore - Afternoon Concert

BBC Singers live at Temple Church

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Singers live at Temple Church

Penny Gore & Ian Skelly with an afternoon of festive music from The BBC Singers and more.

Penny Gore & Ian Skelly with an afternoon of festive music from the concert halls of Europe, including a live concert from The BBC Singers at London’s Temple Church.

Penny Gore with an afternoon of music from the concert halls of Europe, including Mozart's Symphony No.41 from Salzburg alongside a host of Yuletide tunes to get you in the festive spirit. And at 2.30pm, Ian Skelly is at London's Temple Church with the BBC Singers, for a Christmas concert conducted by Sofi Jeannin.

Including:

Prokofiev - Troika [Lietenant Kijé Suite]
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
André Previn (conductor)

Handel - For unto us a child is born [The Messiah]
Zurcher Singakademie
La Scintilla
Florian Helgath (conductor)

Rimsky-Korsakov - Snow Maiden Suite
BBC Philharmonic 
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

2.30pm
LIVE from London’s Temple Church

Jeremy Filsell - Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Melissa Dunphy - O Oriens 
Anna Lapwood - Drop down ye heavens 
Adrian Peacock - O Radix Jesse (BBC Commission, world premiere)  
Lucy Walker - Away in a manger 
Francis Jackson - How not syng but how? 
Helen Neeves - The Holy Night (world premiere)
Iain Farrington - Nova, nova 
Alastair Putt - This Worldes Joie
George Baker - Berceuse sur le nom de SWANN (organ solo)
Bryan Kelly - This lovely lady 
Cecilia McDowall - In Dulci jubilo 
Suzzie Vango - Balulalow 
Malcolm Hawkins - Rainbow Arc 
Stuart Nicholson - We’ve been a while-a-wandering 
Yshani Perinpanayagam - In Bethlehem Above 
Simon Preston - I saw three ships 
Libby Croad - Christmas Eve 
Thomas Hewitt Jones - The Holly and the Ivy 

BBC Singers
Luke Bond (organ)
Sofi Jeannin (conductor

c. 4pm
Sibelius - Finlandia, Op.26
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

Torelli - Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op.8 No.6 "Per il santissimo Natale"
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

Bartok - Romanian Christmas Carols for piano, Sz.57
Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

c. 4.30pm
Malcolm Arnold - Commonwealth Christmas Overture, Op.64
BBC Philharmonic
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Jule Styne - Let it Snow 
Kerry Ellis (vocals)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Cottee (conductor)

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