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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: Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra: Episode 1

Episode 1

Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra, Episode 1

Penny Gore presents the BBC CO in Copland: Music for Movies. Plus Dvorak, Bach and Mozart.

Penny Gore presents music from the BBC Concert Orchestra and other UK ensembles. Featuring Copland: Music for Movies. Plus works by Karlowicz, Dvorak, Bach, Mozart and Britten.

BBC Concert Orchestra

Penny Gore presents a week of performances focusing on the BBC Concert Orchestra, one of the nations's most versatile orchestras with repertoire ranging from classical to jazz, via film and pop. The highlight will be a concert performed live at the Watford Colosseum on Wednesday with conductor Keith Lockhart. Other musical threads throughout the week include concertos by Mozart and works by Dvorak, all performed by BBC orchestras across the UK.


Copland: Music for Movies
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Karlowicz: Bianca da Molena - prologue 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Michal Dworzynski (conductor)

Dvorak: Cello Concerto 
Danjulo Ishizaka - cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Michal Dworzynski (conductor)

Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Michal Dworzynski (conductor)

Bach: Cello Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008 
Danjulo Ishizaka (solo cello) 

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K.622
Sabine Meyer - clarinet
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek - conductor

Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Werner Gura (tenor)
Martin Owen (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek - conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra

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.

Penny Gore presents a series of performances focusing on the BBC Concert Orchestra

Penny Gore presents performances focusing on the BBC Concert Orchestra, one of the nation's most versatile orchestras, featuring repertoire ranging from classical to jazz, via film and pop

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