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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: A Prelude to Youth

Afternoon Concert: A Prelude to Youth: Episode 2: A prelude to youth

A Prelude to Youth

Episode 2

Episode 2: A prelude to youth

A prelude to youth

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, A Prelude to Youth, A prelude to youth

Featuring music from the string finalist of 2010's BBC Young Musician of the Year.

Music from the string finalist of 2010's BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Plus music by Borodin, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Vaughan Williams, Haydn and Dvorak.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales looks forward to the final of the BBC Young Musician competition this weekend with a focus on youth, including performances featuring previous winners. 1994 winner cellist Natalie Clein joins the orchestra in the powerful first cello concerto by Shostakovich. There's also a performance of Vaughan Williams' elegiac Lark Ascending from another previous winner, Jennifer Pike (now a Radio 3 New Generation Artist). Finally we hear from the string finalist in this year's competition. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Borodin: In the steppes of central asia
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alex Shelley (conductor)

Shostakovich: Cello concerto no. 1 in E flat, Op.107
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Natalie Clein (cello)
Alex Shelley (conductor)

2.40pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2 in C minor "Little Russian"
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alex Shelley (conductor)

Liszt: Orpheus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jennifer Pike (violin)
Richard Hickox (conductor)

3.45pm
Haydn: Symphony no. 49 in F minor "La Passione"
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lesley Hatfield (conductor)

Dvorak: Serenade for strings
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Lesley Hatfield (conductor)

4.45pm
Performances from the winner of the 2010 BBC Young Musician strings final.

Afternoon Concert: A Prelude to Youth

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Performances from the final rounds of the 2010 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition.

Performances from the final rounds of the 2010 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. Plus a focus on youth, with competition finalists from previous years

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