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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 4

BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, Episode 4

Penny Gore presents the BBC Singers and SO: Dove, Britten, Zimmerman, Ravel and Berlioz.

Penny Gore presents music featuring the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra. Includes Dove: The Far Theatricals of Day. Britten: Les illuminations. Plus Zimmerman, Ravel and Berlioz.

Today's programme featuring the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra includes the BBC Singers in music by Jonathan Dove, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Zimmerman and Ravel conducted by Susanna Malkki. And then both sets of artists come together for a performance of Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ. 

Presented by Penny Gore

2pm
Jonathan Dove: The Far Theatricals of Day 
BBC Singers
Onyx Brass
Stephen Disley (organ)
Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)

2.25
Britten Les Illuminations 
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

2.45
Zimmerman Photoptosis 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Malkki (conductor)

3.00
Ravel La Valse 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Malkki (conductor)

3.15
Berlioz L'Enfance du Christ
Anna Stephany (Mezzo)
Peter Wedd (Tenor)
Owen Gilhooley (Baritone)
Jonathan Lemalu (Bass-baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (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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