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Afternoon Concert: Light Fantastic

Light Fantastic

24/06/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Light Fantastic

The BBC Philharmonic launches Radio 3's celebration of British light music.

Presented by Suzy Klein. From a factory in Irlam, the BBC Philharmonic launches Radio 3's celebration of British light music, with popular favourites from Britain and beyond.

Live from a factory in Irlam, the BBC Philharmonic play 'Music While You Work' to launch Light Fantastic - Radio 3's celebration of British light music. Suzy Klein presents Stephen Bell conducting the orchestra in a concert packed full of popular favourites from Britain and beyond at the Caterpillar Logistics (UK) and Perkins Worldwide Distribution Centre. And afterwards the festive atmosphere invades the studio as Louise Fryer in presents highlights from a concert of light music the BBC Concert Orchestra gave at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

2pm - Live
Leroy Anderson: Belle of the Ball                                                            
Percy Grainger: Country Gardens 
Johann Strauss II: Perpetuum Mobile                                                            
William Walton: Popular song (from Facade)                                                            
Stanley Black: Overture to a Costume Comedy                                    
Sidney Torch: On a Spring note
Ernest Tomlinson: Concert jig
Robert Farnon: Peanut Polka                                                                        
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: The Jewels of the Madonna (Intermezzo)
Eric Coates: The Dambusters, March                
BBC Philharmonic 
Stephen Bell (conductor)

3pm
Coates: Calling All Workers (theme from Music While You Work)
Farnon: Portrait of a Flirt
Frederic Curzon: The Boulevardier
Edward German: Overture: Nell Gwyn 
Torch: All Strings and Fancy Free
Coates: Cinderella
Charles Williams: The Devil's Galop (theme from Dick Barton, Special Agent)
Arthur Sullivan: Iolanthe: Overture
Coates: By The Sleepy Lagoon (theme from Desert Island Discs) 
Geoffrey Toye: The Haunted Ballroom
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor).

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