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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 4

Episode 4

Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Focus on the BBC Concert Orchestra, Episode 4

Penny Gore presents music by Vaughan Williams, Dvorak, Mozart and Sibelius.

Penny Gore presents music from the BBC CO and other UK ensembles. Featuring Vaughan Williams: Heroic Elegy and Triumphal March. Plus works by Dvorak, Mozart and Sibelius.

Penny Gore continues her exploration of Mozart concertos - today for violin and piano - and Dvorak orchestral works - today including the uplifting Symphony No.8. There's also more from the versatile BBC Concert Orchestra.

Dvorak: Hussite overture (Op.67) 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Takuo Yuasa - conductor

Mozart: Concerto for violin and orchestra No.5 (K.219) in A 
Olivier Charlier (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Takuo Yuasa - conductor

SIBELIUS: Symphony no. 1 in E minor 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Takuo Yuasa - conductor

Vaughan Williams: Heroic Elegy & Triumphal March
Roderick Elms - organ
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)

Mozart: Piano Concerto in A, K 414
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier - conductor


Dvorak: Symphony No 8 
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier - 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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