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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: BBC Performing Groups Live

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Live: Episode 1: BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Episode 1: BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Performing Groups Live

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Penny Gore introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert of Wagner, Marx and Strauss.

With Penny Gore. The BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert of Wagner, Marx and Strauss given at the Barbican. Plus the BBC Philharmonic in Pierne and the Ulster Orchestra in Bliss.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra begins a week of live and recently recorded music from BBC performing groups on Afternoon on Three, with a concert given last Saturday at the Barbican under conductor Jirí Belohlávek. After Wagner's stirring Tannhäuser Overture, soprano Christine Brewer performs songs by Joseph Marx, and the concert finishes with Richard Strauss's epic Alpine Symphony.

This week Afternoon on Three also joins in Radio 3's Checkmate theme with readings about chess and related music.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Wagner: Tannhäuser - Overture
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)

Joseph Marx: 
Barkarole
Selige Nacht
Der beschneidene Schafer
Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht 
Sommerlied 
Maienbluten
Waldseligkeit
Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt
Christine Brewer (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)

Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek (conductor)

Pierne: Piano Concerto in C, Op. 12
BBC Philharmonic
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Spencer Holst: Chess (Reading)

Bliss: Checkmate - Suite
Ulster Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Live

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.

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