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Afternoon Concert

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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

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Afternoon on 3: BBC Orchestras

Afternoon Concert: BBC Orchestras: Episode 1: State Theatre, New Jersey

BBC Orchestras

Episode 1

Episode 1: State Theatre, New Jersey

State Theatre, New Jersey

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Orchestras, State Theatre, New Jersey

The BBC CO performs Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, John Foulds and Edgar Bainton.

The BBC CO performs at the State Theatre, New Jersey. Mozart: Overture (Le nozze di Figaro). Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5. Plus Mendelssohn, John Foulds and Edgar Bainton.

Louise Fryer presents a week of programmes featuring the BBC orchestras, in particular the BBC Concert Orchestra on tour. Today's concert was recorded in the State Theatre, New Jersey, as part of their East coast American winter tour with their principal conductor Keith Lockhart and fabulous young Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev.

Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo, Nocturne, Wedding March
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

2.20pm
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Ilya Yakushev (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

2.45pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no. 5
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

3.30pm
Julius Harrison: Worcestershire Suite
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

John Foulds: Darby and Joan - Old English Idyll, Op. 42 no. 1
Cynthia Fleming (violin), Katharine Wood (cello)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)

4pm
Edgar Bainton: Symphony no. 3
BBC Concert Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Orchestras

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Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC orchestras

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC orchestras, in particular the BBC Concert Orchestra on tour

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