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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 5

Episode 5

BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Musical Firsts

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Musical Firsts, Episode 5

BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Guto Puw, Haydn, Mathias, MacMillan and Mahler.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Guto Puw: Overture (Torr'ir Garreg). Haydn: Symphony No 70. Mathias: Horn Concerto. MacMillan: The World's Ransoming. Mahler: Symphony No 7.

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

Penny introduces a recent concert recorded at Bangor University last November, as part of the 125th anniversary celebrations. It opens with the most recent premiere given by the orchestra, from Resident Composer Guto Puw, 'Break the Stone' - a reference both to a Welsh folksong and the quarrying heritage of North Wales. 

The final item in the week comes from one of the most memorable concerts of the orchestra's 2008-9 season at St. David's Hall in Cardiff, Mahler's mighty 7th Symphony, his Song of the Night.

Guto Puw: Overture: Torri'r Garreg
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Garry Walker (conductor)

Haydn: Symphony No. 70 in D Major
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Garry Walker (conductor)

2.40pm
William Mathias: Horn Concerto (Op. 93)
Tim Thorpe (horn) 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Garry Walker (conductor)

3.10pm
James MacMillan: The World's Ransoming
Celia Craig (cor anglais) 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

3.30pm
Mahler: Symphony no. 7
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kazushi Ono (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Musical Firsts

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

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