Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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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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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: VOCES8

VOCES8

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, VOCES8

Live from Wigmore Hall, the ensemble sings a diverse programme called Choral Dances.

Live from Wigmore Hall, ensemble VOCES8 sings a diverse programme called Choral Dances, featuring Renaissance composers as well as Nat King Cole and Jimmy Van Heusen.

The hugely popular vocal ensemble VOCES8 performs a typically diverse programme called ‘Choral Dances’, after the dances from Britten's opera Gloriana. Renaissance composers such as Byrd and Weelkes (both of whom celebrate anniversaries this year) also feature, as well as popular classics by Nat King Cole, Irving Berlin and Jimmy Van Heusen. 

Live from Wigmore Hall
Presented by Hannah French

Giovanni Croce: Buccinate in neomenia tuba
Benjamin Britten: Gloriana - Choral Dances
Paul Smith: Nunc Dimittis
William Byrd: Ave verum corpus
Roxanna Panufnik: O Hearken
Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Ward Swingle: English Suite No 2 in A minor BWV 807 - Bourrée 
Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending
Orlande de Lassus: Dessus le marché d’Arras
Nat King Cole/Irving Mills arr. Jim Clements: Straighten Up and Fly Right
Irving Berlin arr. Jim Clements: Cheek to Cheek
Jimmy Van Heusen arr. Alexander L'Estrange: Come Fly With Me

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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.

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