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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 Scottish Symphony Orchestra - 75th Anniversary

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - 75th Anniversary: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - 75th Anniversary

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - 75th Anniversary, Episode 3

Katie Derham presents the BBC SSO in music by Sally Beamish, Mozart, Strauss and Brahms.

Katie Derham with a celebration of the BBC SSO. Sally Beamish: Kirschen. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 17 (with Ronald Brautigam). Strauss: Guntram (excerpt). Brahms: Symphony No 4.

3 December 1935 saw the debut of a new orchestra in Glasgow: the BBC Scottish Orchestra. This week, as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, they celebrate their 75th birthday. Katie Derham celebrates in Afternoon on 3 with a selection of exciting new recordings and and archive highlights from the orchestra's history.

The week features recordings with most of the orchestra's Principal Conductors - from their founder Ian Whyte to Donald Runnicles, who's been in the post just over a year - and some of their most famous Assistant Conductors, including Simon Rattle! There's also Scottish music every day, and we visit all five cities where the orchestra perform regularly - Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Perth - as well as Munich and Vienna on their recent acclaimed tour of central Europe.

Today's programme features Andrew Manze's debut as Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC SSO . The concert starts with a brand-new bowl of sweet cherries from Sally Beamish to contrast with Brahms's Fourth Symphony - which, Brahms said, 'takes after the climate in these parts: the cherries don't grow ripe and sweet here!' 

Sally Beamish: Kirschen (World premiere)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze, conductor

2.15pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 17 in G, K453
Ronald Brautigam, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze, conductor

2.45pm
Richard Strauss: Guntram - closing scene (Act 3)
Freihild.............Marie Collier, soprano 
Guntram........Robert Thomas, tenor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Norman Del Mar, conductor
[1964 recording]

3.00pm
Brahms: Symphony No.4
BBC Scottish Symphony Ochestra
Andrew Manze, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - 75th Anniversary

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Katie Derham celebrates the 75th birthday of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Katie Derham celebrates the 75th birthday of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with new and archive recordings. Featuring performances from most BBC SSO principal conductors and Scottish works

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