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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: Maida Vale 75th Anniversary

Afternoon Concert: Maida Vale 75th Anniversary: Episode 4

Episode 4

Maida Vale 75th Anniversary

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Maida Vale 75th Anniversary, Episode 4

Louise Fryer with music by Dalbavie, Prokofiev, Lutoslawski, Weir, Shchedrin and Brahms.

From Maida Vale studios. Dalbavie: Rocks under the water; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2. Lutoslawski: Concerto for orchestra. Plus recorded works by Weir, Shchedrin and Brahms.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

A celebration of 75 years of radio broadcasting from the BBC's Maida Vale Studios. Featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert broadcast from Studio 1 - the orchestra's home since 1934.

From Maida Vale Studio 1:

Olivier Charlier (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

Dalbavie: Rocks under the water
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra

Plus more music recorded in the Maida Vale Studios by the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

3.35pm
Judith Weir: Moon and Star
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Shchedrin: Concerto parlando
Philippe Graffin (violin)
Martin Hurrell (trumpet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Mikhail Agrest (conductor)

4.15pm
Brahms: Symphony No 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Maida Vale 75th Anniversary

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.

A celebration of 75 years of radio broadcasting from the BBC's Maida Vale Studios

Louise Fryer presents a celebration of 75 years of radio broadcasting from the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

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