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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: Essential Symphony

Afternoon Concert: Symphony: Episode 3

Episode 3

Symphony

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Symphony, Episode 3

Music accompanying the BBC Four Symphony series, by Stamitz, Schumann, Cannabich, Mozart.

Music accompanying the BBC Four Symphony series. Stamitz: Symphony in D. Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor. Cannabich: Symphony No 48. Mozart: Symphonies Nos 31 and 39.

Katie Derham continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series. Today's programme begins with the Ulster Orchestra in a live concert from Belfast, featuring great Symphonies by Haydn and Mozart - plus Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor playing Schumann, and a key work from the mid-1700s that helped to establish the standard four-movement form of the classical Symphony. The programme ends with another Mozart Symphony - the first in his final trilogy of masterpieces which you can hear over the next three days.

2pm
Live on 3: concert from Belfast
Stamitz: Symphony in D major, Op. 3 no. 2
Ulster Orchestra 
Howard Shelley (conductor)

c. 2.10pm
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
Ulster Orchestra 
Howard Shelley (conductor)

c. 2.40pm
Christian Cannabich: Symphony no. 48 in B flat major, Op. 10 no. 3
Ulster Orchestra
Matthias Bamert (conductor)

C P E Bach: Symphony in D major, Wq. 183 no. 1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

c 3.00pm 
Live on 3: concert from Belfast (Part 2)
Mozart: Symphony no. 31 in D major (Paris)
Ulster Orchestra 
Howard Shelley (conductor)

c. 3.20pm
Haydn: Symphony no. 100 in G major (Military) 
Ulster Orchestra 
Howard Shelley (conductor)

c. 3.55pm
Mozart: Symphony no. 39 in E flat major
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Symphony

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Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series, including every symphony featured in it

Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series, including every note of every symphony featured in it

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