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Afternoon on 3: Thursday Opera Matinee

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: BBC Scottish SO live, plus Thursday Opera Matinee

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Music: Classical: Opera

Afternoon on 3

28/04/2011

BBC Scottish SO live, plus Thursday Opera Matinee

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert

A live concert from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, plus Thursday Opera Matinee.

Featuring a BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert, live from Glasgow. Plus the Thursday Opera Matinee: Rachmaninov's Francesca da Rimini from Paris.

Today's Afternoon on 3 features a live concert from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra who are joined by Radio 3 New Generation Artists the ATOS Trio. It's followed by this week's Thursday Opera Matinee: Rachmaninov's Francesca da Rimini from the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Then we return to the world of neglected English composer York Bowen for music by him and his contemporary, Stravinsky.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

2pm
Live from City Halls in Glasgow
Presented by Jamie MacDougall

Haydn: Piano Trio in G major, Hob.XV:25 'Gipsy Rondo'
ATOS Trio

Beethoven Concerto for piano, violin and
cello in C major, Op. 56 (Triple Concerto)
ATOS Trio
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)

3pm
Thursday Opera Matinee
Rachmaninov: Francesca da Rimini
Francesca .... Anna Aglatova (soprano)
Paolo .... Mikhail Gubsky (tenor) 
Dante .... Vitaly Panfilov (tenor) 
Virgil's Ghost .... Alexander Naumenko (baritone) 
Lanciotto Malatesta .... Sergei Leiferkus (baritone) 
Radio France Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra
Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)

4.05pm
Britten: Lachrymae 
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

Bowen: Fantasia for four violas
Lawrence Power, Philip Dukes 
James Boyd, Scott Dickinson (violas)

4.40pm
Stravinsky: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra in E Flat, 'Dumbarton Oaks'
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee

Thursday Opera Matinee

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