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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: Musical Outsiders

Afternoon Concert: Musical Outsiders: Episode 4

Episode 4

Musical Outsiders

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Musical Outsiders, Episode 4

Katie Derham presents music by Berlioz, Sibelius, Britten and Elgar.

Katie Derham presents Sibelius' Symphony No 7, Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedicte, Op 27, Britten's Cello Symphony, Op 68 and Elgar's Alassio (In the South), Op 50.

2pm Afternoon on 3: Musical Outsiders.

Katie Derham presents a week of Elgar performances from non-British performers and looks at the Outsider in music 

Hector Berlioz was fascinated all his life by Shakespeare and wrote the music and the libretto for "Beatrice and Benedict", a 2 Act Comic Opera that roughly follows Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing" and in which the 2 protagonists use their wits to spar with each other. Joyce di Donato is Beatrice and Charles Workman is Benedict in this performance from Paris, conducted by Berlioz specialist Sir Colin Davis. 

The Elgar today is his overture Alassio "in the South", in a performance from Poland. 

Much like Elgar, Sibelius craved official recognition in his musical career, and like Elgar achieved it in the end, forging an enduring Finnish character in music.



Berlioz: Beatice et Benedict Opera in 2 Acts (Op.27)
Joyce Di Donato, soprano, BÃ©atrice; 
Charles Workman, tenor, BÃ©nÃ©dict; 
Christophe Fel, bass, spoken role, Leonato;
Nicolas Cavallier, bass, Don Pedro; 
Nathalie Manfrino, soprano, Hero; 
Jean-FranÃ§ois Lapointe, baritone, Claudio; 
Jean-Philippe Laffont, baritone, Somarone; 
Elodie MÃ©chain, soprano, Ursula; 

Radio France Chorus; Orchestre National de France; 
Sir Colin Davis (conductor

Sibelius: Symphony No.7 in C (Op.105)

Britten: Cello Symphony (Op.68)
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor)

Elgar: Alassio In the South (Op.50)
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice
Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Musical Outsiders

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.

Katie Derham presents music by Elgar and pieces by composers who were 'musical outsiders'.

Katie Derham presents performances of Elgar from non-British musicians, as well as works by composers who were regarded as musical outsiders

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