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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: The Big Concert Plus

Afternoon Concert: The Big Concert Plus: Episode 3

Episode 3

The Big Concert Plus

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, The Big Concert Plus, Episode 3

Penny Gore celebrates the BBC's performing Groups: music by Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn.

Penny Gore presents a celebration of BBC performing groups. Includes Beethoven: Egmont Overture. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 26; Serse (excerpt). Haydn: Symphony No 83.

Last Sunday the BBC's seven performing groups all gave live concerts on Radio 3. In this week's Afternoon on 3 Penny Gore picks up the baton to celebrate all seven performing groups with a concert each - from right across the UK and Europe. Today's concert is live too - direct from Belfast with local presenter Marie-Louise Muir, the Ulster Orchestra are joined by two of Radio 3's New Generation Artists in music by Mozart, complemented by Haydn and Beethoven. 

Beethoven: Egmont Overture 
Ulster Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor 

Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 26 in D major 'Coronation' 
Francesco Piemontesi, pianoUlster Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor

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Mozart: 'Che scompiglio, che flagello', from La finta semplice
Handel: 'Piu che penso', from Serse 
Mozart: 'Non so piu cosa son, cosa faccio', from Le nozze di Figaro 
Daniela Lehner, mezzo-soprano
Ulster Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor

Haydn Symphony no. 83 in G minor (La Poule) 
Ulster Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: The Big Concert Plus

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Penny Gore presents concerts given to celebrate all seven BBC performing groups

Penny Gore presents a series celebrating all seven BBC performing groups with a concert each - from across the UK and Europe

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