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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 4

Composer-Conductor-Performers

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Composer-Conductor-Performers, Episode 4

Louise Fryer presents composer-conductor-performers: Coates, Strauss, MacMillan, Britten.

Louise Fryer celebrates composer-conductor-performers. Coates: Suite (The Jester at the Wedding). Strauss: Don Juan. MacMillan: Magnificat. Plus Beethoven, Bridge and Britten.

Composer-conductor-performers

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 Eric Coates, Benjamin Britten and Richard Strauss, together with the contemporary Scottish composer-conductor James MacMillan. Featuring BBC Performing Group recordings.

Coates: The Jester at the Wedding - suite from the ballet
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, conductor

2.25pm
Strauss: Don Juan 
BBC Philharmonic
Michal Dworzynski, conductor

MacMillan: Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis
BBC Singers
Jonathan Scott, organ 
James MacMillan, conductor

3.05pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major
Ulster Orchestra
Howard Shelley, soloist/conductor

Bridge: Summer: tone poem 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rumon Gamba, orchestra

3.45pm
Britten: Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings
Ian Bostridge, tenor 
BBC Philharmonic
Yutaka Sado, conductor

4.20pm
Britten: Symphony for cello and orchestra 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Danjulo Ishizaka, cello
Edwin Outwater, 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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