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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: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 3

Katie Derham introduces the BBC NOW performing Elgar, Britten and Vaughan Williams.

With Katie Derham. From BBC Hoddinott Hall, David Atherton leads the BBC NOW. Elgar: Cockaigne. Britten: Nocturne. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4. Plus d'Indy: Choral Varie; Lied.

BBC Hoddinott Hall is the home of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Part of the Wales Millennium centre, it provides the orchestra with a recording studio and concert hall with a 350 seat capacity. The hall is also an excellent venue for chamber music - as we'll discover in Radio 3's lunchtime concerts this week. During the afternoons, we'll be hearing from those artists who have given recitals here following them through to performances with the orchestra, and hearing BBC NOW in action in concert, in session, in Wales and beyond.

Today we go live to BBC Hoddinott Hall to hear the orchestra in action with a long-time friend and frequent guest conductor David Atherton. We're also joined by ex-Radio 3 New Generation Artist Andrew Kennedy. Together we explore three faces of English music: the warmth and good humour of Elgar, the dreamlike atmosphere of Britten and the raw energy and anger of Vaughan Williams - not quite what we might expect from the quintessential purveyor of "pastoral". Our soloist for the preceding Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert was violist Lawrence Power. He was recently recording works by Vaughan Williams with the orchestra for CD with Hyperion, but the finished product is still under wraps, so we've a set of choral variations from an earlier collaboration between soloist and orchestra, by French composer Vincent d'Indy.

Presented by Katie Derham.

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Katie Derham presents performances by the BBC NOW given in Wales and beyond

Katie Derham presents performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales given in Wales and beyond

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