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Afternoon Concert: Red Nose Day

Red Nose Day

18/03/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Red Nose Day

Comedians and the BBC's performing groups join Louise Fryer in a Comic Relief edition.

Louise Fryer presents a special Red Nose Day edition, with contributions from comics such as Lenny Henry, the BBC Singers and BBC orchestras, and listeners' favourite musical fun.

Louise Fryer presents a feast of musical humour. 

Rossini, arr. Spike Jones: William Tell Overture
Spike Jones and his City Slickers

Bernstein: One Hundred Easy Ways (from Wonderful Town)
Kim Criswell as Ruth Sherwood
BCMG
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Victor Borge: Variations on Happy Birthday

Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 no. 2 (‘Joke’)
Lindsay Quartet

Tom Lehrer: Alma

c. 13:30
Basil Brush joins Louise in the studio

attrib. Rossini: Cats duet 
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Victoria De Los Angeles (soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)

Lenny Henry introduces his recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Lenny Henry (narrator)
Nouvel Ensemble Instrumental du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris
Jacques Pési (conductor)

c. 14:15
Comedian Armando Iannucci joins Louise and chooses some of his favourite pieces of music

c. 14:30
Following on from this morning’s Composer of the Week, Donald Macleod reveals which ‘Unbelievable Spoofs’ were real and which were…. well, spoofs.

Mozart: Queen of the Night’s Aria from The Magic Flute
Florence Foster Jenkins, “soprano”

Mozart, arr. Flanders and Swann: Ill Wind

Grieg: Piano Concerto
Eric Morecambe & Andrew Privet (Andre Previn)

Gilbert and Sullivan: ‘When I was a lad I served a term’ from HMS Pinafore 
Richard Suart as the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, KCB
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)

c. 14:55
Special guest Stephen Mangan (Green Wing, Episodes) joins Louise in the studio and plays music with a comical twist.

Malcolm Arnold: A Grand Grand Overture (recorded at the first ever Hoffnung concert in 1956)
Hoffnung (alias Morley College) Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Arnold (conductor)

A Dudley Moore musical parody

Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Shelley (conductor)

c. 15:30
Live from Bangor, the BBC NOT NOW band fiddle with Sibelius. Followed by fifteen minutes of fun at the expense of Richard Wagner, including comedian Anna Russell and Bugs Bunny.

c. 16:00
Afternoon on 3 joins the BBC Singers and conductor Paul Brough live from Maida Vale, where they perform works including the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah conducted by Radio 3's Red Nose Conducting Competition winner Dennis Gound.

With presenter Christopher Cook.

BBC Singers
Conductor Paul Brough

Parry: Music, when soft voices die 
Holst: Ode to CKS and the Oriana
Joseph Horovitz: It was a lover and his lass
Handel: Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah) conducted by competition winner Dennis Gound

c. 16:30 
Mozart: A Musical Joke

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