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Afternoon Concert

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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 Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra: Episode 1

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Episode 1

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1

With Louise Fryer. BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek in Elgar, Beethoven, Martinu and Dvorak.

Louise Fryer with music from the BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek. Elgar: In the South (Alassio). Beethoven: Piano Concerto Nos 2 and 1 (soloist - Paul Lewis). Plus Martinu and Dvorak.

Louise Fryer presents a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek, who returned from their Far East tour just a few days ago. Alongside concerts they gave in China and Japan, you can hear - equally hot off the press - their brand-new cycle of all five Beethoven piano concertos with soloist Paul Lewis, who'll also be playing them all at the 2010 Proms. Plus another complete cycle - all six of Martinu's symphonies that Jiri Belohlavek has been conducting with the BBC Symphony Orchestra this season.

We start today with the first two Beethoven concertos - which were almost certainly composed in a different order from their numbering - plus Martinu's first symphony, and Elgar from Guangzhou, China and Dvorak from Tokyo.

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Elgar: In the south (Alassio)

2.20pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Paul Lewis (piano)

2.50pm
Martinu: Symphony no. 1

3.30pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major, Op. 15
Paul Lewis (piano)

4.10pm
Dvorak: Symphony no. 9 in E minor (From the New World).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Louise Fryer presents performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek

Louise Fryer presents performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek. With concerts given in China and Japan and a new Beethoven piano concerto cycle

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