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Afternoon Concert

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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 Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra: Episode 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Episode 3

BBC Symphony Orchestra in Diepenbrock: Hymnen an die Nacht. Bartok: Suite No 1, Op 3.

A focus on the work of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Diepenbrock: Hymnen an die Nacht (with Charlotte Hellekant: mezzo). Bartok: Suite No 1, Op 3.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra play two Romantic rarities from around the year 1900 - think Gustav Mahler and Mahler Strauss and you won't be far off. Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock, a close friend of Mahler, wrote many works inspired by the nighttime: today his 'Hymns to the Night' are followed by one of the earliest orchestral works by the Hungarian Bela Bartok, composed before he'd grown out of his early obsession with Strauss's orchestral tone poems.

c. 14:30
Diepenbrock: Hymnen an die Nacht
Charlotte Hellekant (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Renes (conductor)

c. 14:50
Bartok: Suite No. 1, Op. 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra

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.

A series of programmes featuring performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

A series of programmes featuring performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, as part of Afternoon on 3's enhanced coverage of concerts by the BBC orchestras

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