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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: Composer-Conductor-Performers

Afternoon Concert: Composer-Conductor-Performers: Episode 1

Episode 1

Composer-Conductor-Performers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Composer-Conductor-Performers, Episode 1

Louise Fryer celebrates composer-conductor-performers: Elgar, Mahler, Lambert and Walton.

Louise Fryer celebrates British and European composer-conductor-performers. Elgar: Froissart. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder. Plus Lambert, Watkins, Martinu and Walton.

Composer-conductor-performers.

Across the centuries leading musicians, at home and abroad, have demonstrated their versatility in fulfilling dual roles as composer-conductors, conductor-performers or performer-composers with great success. In today's Afternoon on 3, Louise Fryer celebrates the accomplishments of figures who have met these criteria, including Sir Edward Elgar, Constant Lambert, William Walton and Gustav Mahler, together with the contemporary British composer-performer Huw Watkins. Featuring BBC Performing Group recordings.

Elgar: Froissart - Concert Overture 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor

2.15pm
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder 
Jane Irwin, mezzo sporano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer, conductor

Lambert: Horoscope - suite from the ballet 
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor

3pm
Huw Watkins: Concerto for piano and orchestra 
Huw Watkins, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen, conductor

3.25pm
Martinu: Rhapsody Concerto for Viola and Orchestra 
Maxim Rysanov, viola 
Ulster Orchestra 
David Porcelijn, conductor

Walton: Portsmouth Point - overture 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Edwin Outwater, conductor

4.10pm
Walton: Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor 
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Composer-Conductor-Performers

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Louise Fryer presents a series celebrating musicians who have worked in dual roles

Louise Fryer presents a series celebrating the versatile musicians who have worked in dual roles - composer-conductors, conductor-performers or perfomer-composers

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