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Afternoon Concert: 29/04/2011

29/04/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 29/04/2011

Celebrating the Royal Wedding with a concert live from Belfast by the Ulster Orchestra.

With Louise Fryer. Celebrating the Royal Wedding with a concert live from Belfast by the Ulster Orchestra. Plus music from English composer York Bowen and his contemporaries.

Today's Afternoon on 3 celebrates the Royal Wedding with a live concert of royal music from Belfast's Ulster Hall. The Ulster Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth are also joined by Irish soprano Ailish Tynan for music by Mozart and Haydn. 

Afterwards we return to the world of neglected English composer York Bowen, who died fifty years ago. We'll hear music by Bowen, and by Saint-Saens who called him "the most remarkable of the young British composers".

Presented by Louise Fryer

2pm
Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast
Presented by John Toal

Jeremiah Clarke: The Prince of Denmark's March
Britten: Courtly Dances (from Gloriana) 
Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate, K165
Bliss: Royal Palaces Music (excerpts) 
Wagner: Bridal Chorus (Lohengrin) 
Ferguson: Overture for an Occasion
Handel: Let the bright Seraphim (Samson)
Handel arr. Harty: Water Music Suite
Walton: Orb and Sceptre
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wedding March

Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Ulster Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor) 

3:55pm
Britten: 2 Portraits for String Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

Bowen: Eventide
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)

4.35
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto no. 1 in A minor
Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Susanna Malkki (conductor).

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