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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: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Episode 4

With Louise Fryer. BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek perform Martinu, Prokofiev and Beethoven.

With Louise Fryer. BBC SO under Jiri Belohlavek in Martinu: Symphony No 5. Prokofiev: Symphony No 5. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (soloist - Paul Lewis). Martinu: Symphony No 6.

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.

To round off the week today, the grandest of Beethoven's piano concertos, the fifth, joins a fifth symphony from Prokofiev - performed in Beijing - and both the fifth and sixth of Martinu's symphonies. 

Martinu: Symphony no. 5

2.35pm
Prokofiev: Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100

3.30pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 (Emperor)
Paul Lewis (piano)

4.10pm
Martinu: Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony no. 6).

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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