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Afternoon on 3: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Orkney

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Orkney: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Orkney

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Orkney, Episode 1

Katie Derham presents the BBC SSO in music by Britten, Elgar, Maxwell Davies and Mahler.

Katie Derham presents concerts given by the BBC SSO. Britten: Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes). Elgar: Enigma Variations. Maxwell Davies: The Seas of Kirk Swarf. Mahler: Symphony No 4.

All this week Afternoon on 3 celebrates the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's visit to the 2010 St Magnus Festival in the Orkney Isles. The orchestra has appeared at the festival regularly over the last decade, and you can also hear performances from previous years and some of the voices associated with Orkney. 
To begin today, highlights from the concert recorded on 20 June 2010 in the Pickaquoy Centre in Kirkwall, starting appropriately with an evocative seascape in Britten's Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes. From the orchestra's 2007 visit there's music by the festival's founder, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and a child's vision of Heaven in Mahler's Fourth Symphony - sung by the Scottish soprano Lisa Milne with the BBC SSO conducted by its then Associate Guest Conductor, Stefan Solyom. 
Presented by Katie Derham.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

2.20pm
Elgar: Enigma Variations
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

3.00pm
Maxwell Davies: The Seas of Kirk Swarf 
Simon Butterworth, bass clarinet 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor

3.45pm
Mahler: Symphony no. 4 in G major 
Lisa Milne, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Orkney

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Katie Derham celebrates the BBC SSO's visit to the 2010 St Magnus Festival in Orkney

Katie Derham celebrates the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's visit to the 2010 St Magnus Festival in Orkney. Plus performances from previous years and some of the voices associated with the isles

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