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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: Mahler: Mahler and Nature

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Nature: Part 3

Mahler

Part 3 BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Mahler, Mahler and Nature, Part 3

The BBC Singers perform Dvorak, Smetana, Strauss, Webern, Berg at St Pauls, Knightsbridge.

Richard Coles introduces a concert given at St Pauls by the BBC Singers centring on theme of Mahler and nature. With works by Dvorak, Smetana, Strauss, Webern and Berg.

Featuring at 2pm, a live concert by the BBC Singers on a theme of Mahler and Nature including music by Dvorak, Smetana, Mahler, Berg and Strauss. There's more nature themed music by Dvorak, his symphonic poem "A Hero's Song", whose premiere was conducted by Mahler. Then there's Benjamin Britten's arrangement of the second movement from Mahler's 3rd Symphony "What the flowers tell me", and more Mahler songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

2pm
"Tales from Vienna Woods"
BBC Singers "Live" from St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, conducted by James Morgan and introduced by Richard Coles, including:
Mahler arr. Gottwald: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
Dvorak: In Nature's Realm
Strauss: 7 Lieder (1880)
Smetana: Sbory trojhlasne

3pm
Dvorak: A Hero's Song (Op.111)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

Mahler arr. Britten: What the wild flowers tell me
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Jaap van Zweden, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Mahler

Afternoon Concert: Mahler: Mahler and Nature

Mahler and Nature

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.

Series of performances celebrating various facets of Gustav Mahler's life and work

Series to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Mahler, with performances celebrating various facets of the composer's life and work

Penny Gore presents music by Mahler and others exploring the theme of nature

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