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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: BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Musical Firsts

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Musical Firsts: Episode 3

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Musical Firsts

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Musical Firsts, Episode 3

BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Anthony Powers, Poulenc, Honegger and Copland.

BBC NOW in Anthony Powers: Terrain. Poulenc: Concert champetre for harpsichord and orchestra. Honegger: Concerto for cello and orchestra. Copland: Appalachian Spring (1945).

Penny Gore presents a week of programmes reflecting on musical firsts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. 

Today Elin Manahan Thomas presents a live Afternoon on 3 concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. The orchestra is joined by conductor Martyn Brabbins to travel three contrasting musical landscapes.

Anthony Powers talks with Elin, looking back on his 1993 commission for the orchestra. They're joined by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mahan Esfahani for Poulenc's "countryside" concerto for harpsichord, inspired by the eighteenth century entertainment of the French court at Versailles. 

Copland's 1940s ballet score remains one of the quintessential American works of the twentieth century, with its perfect evocation of the pioneer spirit and the wide open spaces of the great outdoors. 

Anthony Powers: Terrain
BBC National Orchestra of Wales 
Martyn Brabbins (conductor) 

2.30pm
Poulenc: Concert champetre for harpsichord (or piano) and orchestra
Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Arthur Honegger: Concerto for cello and orchestra
Alban Gerhardt (cello) 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales 
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

3.20pm
Copland: Appalachian spring - ballet version for orchestra [1945] 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales 
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Musical Firsts

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 centring on musical firsts featuring the BBC NOW

Penny Gore presents a series centring on musical firsts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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