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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: A Week at the Concertgebouw

Afternoon Concert: A Week at the Concertgebouw: Episode 3

Episode 3

A Week at the Concertgebouw

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, A Week at the Concertgebouw, Episode 3

With Penny Gore. Music from the Concertgebouw: Milhaud, Stravinsky, Mozart and Gershwin.

Penny Gore with music from Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Milhaud: La creation du monde. Stravinsky: Les noces. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto. John Adams: City Noir. Gershwin: I Got Rhythm.

Penny Gore presents more top performances from the beautiful concert hall in Amsterdam, the Concertgebouw. The backbone of today's programme is a concert conducted by leading American composer John Adams. Plus one of the world's top clarinettists plays Mozart. 

2:00pm 
Rachmaninov: Ave Maria, Vesper No. 6
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Sigvards Klava (conductor)

Stravinsky: Ave Maria
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Hans Graf (conductor)

Milhaud: La création du monde, Op. 81
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
John Adams (conductor)

2:15pm
Stravinsky: Les noces
Zvetelina Vassileva (soprano)
Elizabeth Sikora (mezzo-soprano)
Marcel Beekman (tenor)
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
John Adams (conductor)

2:40pm
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Paul Meyer (clarinet)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

3:05pm
John Adams: City Noir
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
John Adams (conductor)

3:45pm
Gershwin: I got rhythm
Roland Brautigam (piano)
Concertgebouw Jazz Orchestra
Henk Meutgeert (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: A Week at the Concertgebouw

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Penny Gore introduces performances given at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

Penny Gore introduces performances given at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, which is home to one of the world's great orchestras. Plus music from the Dutch counterparts to the BBC's own orchestras

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