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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 4

Episode 4

The Big Concert Plus

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, The Big Concert Plus, Episode 4

Penny Gore presents music by Alwyn, Brian, Bowen, Wagner and Bruckner.

Penny Gore celebrates the BBC's performing groups. With Alwyn: Derby Day. Brian: Shadow Dance. Bowen: Symphony No 1. Wagner: Wesendonck -Lieder. Bruckner: Symphony No 5.

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 she rounds off the week with the BBC's orchestras based in south-east England: the BBC Concert Orchestra showcasing the early twentieth-century British repertoire that is their speciality, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a blockbuster concert from their Spanish tour with Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek and soprano Christine Brewer - here heard in the stunning new concert hall at Oviedo in the far north of the country.

Alwyn: Derby Day 
Quilter: New Serenade 
BBC Concert Orchestra
Gavin Sutherland, conductor 

2.20pm
Brian: Shadow Dance (from The Tigers) 
Moeran: Lonely Waters 
BBC Concert Orchestra
Gavin Sutherland, conductor

2.35pm
Bowen: Symphony no. 1 in G major 
BBC Concert Orchestra
Gavin Sutherland, conductor

3.15pm
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder 
Christine Brewer, soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

3.35pm
Bruckner: Symphony no. 5 in B flat major
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: The Big Concert Plus

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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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