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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 Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, Episode 2

Presented by Penny Gore and featuring the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Singers in Tarik O'Regan's The Night's Untruth. Plus music by Hannah Kendall, Britten, Walton, Prokofiev, Schumann and Messiaen.

Today's programme featuring the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra includes the first performance of Tarik O'Regan's The Night's Untruth. Plus another chance to hear a concert the Singers gave during the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival, conducted by David Hill. And the BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by soprano Elizabeth Watts for the music Walton wrote for the film As you like it, followed by Prokofiev's ballet music for Romeo and Juliet.

Presented by Penny Gore 

2pm
Tarik O'Regan: The Night's Untruth (first performance)
BBC Singers
Onyx Brass
Stephen Disley (organ)
Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)

Hannah Kendall: Fundamental 
BBC Singers
Onyx Brass
Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)

2.30
Britten Quatre Chansons Francaises 
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

2.50
Walton: As you Like it 
Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Paul Daniel (conductor)

3.05
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - extracts 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Paul Daniel (conductor)

3.45
Schumann: 4 Songs for double chorus, Op.141
Crawford Seeger: 3 Chants for women's chorus
Britten: Sacred and profane
Kurtag: 8 Choruses to poems by Deszo Tandori
Messiaen: 5 Rechants
BBC Singers
David Hill (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

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Penny Gore with a series celebrating the work of the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes celebrating the work of the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

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