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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 2

Episode 2

Composer-Conductor-Performers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Composer-Conductor-Performers, Episode 2

Louise Fryer celebrates composer-conductor-performers: Harty, Stanford, Barlow and Mozart.

Louise Fryer celebrates composer-conductor-performers. Harty: Concerto for piano and orchestra. Stanford: Symphony No 4. Barlow: Nocturne. Plus music by Mozart and Mendelssohn.

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Across the centuries leading musicians, at home and abroad, have demonstrated their versatility in fulfilling dual roles as composers-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 Hamilton Harty, Charles Villiers Stanford, Felix Mendelssohn and the contemporary British conductor-composer Stephen Barlow - all in recordings by Ulster Orchestra.

Harty: Concerto for piano and orchestra 
Hugh Tinney, piano
Ulster Orchestra 
Jane Glover, conductor

2.35pm
Stanford: Symphony No. 4 in F major
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor 

Stephen Barlow: Nocturne for clarinet, strings and marimba 
Emma Johnson, clarinet
Scott Foster, marimba
Ulster Orchestra
Stephen Barlow, conductor

3.40pm
Mozart: Piano concerto no. 25 in C major, K503 
Shai Wosner, piano
Ulster Orchestra
David Porcelijn, conductor

4.20pm
Mendelssohn: Incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ulster Orchestra
Stephen Barlow, 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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