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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: Symphony

Afternoon Concert: Symphony: Episode 13

Episode 13

Symphony

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Symphony, Episode 13

Music to accompany the BBC Symphony series, by Dvorak, Wagner, Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

Music to accompany the BBC Four Symphony series. Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G. Wagner: Gotterdammerung (excerpt). Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6.

Louise Fryer continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series.

Today she's joined live in the Afternoon on 3 studio by conductor Sir Mark Elder to discuss what Wagner's music is doing in a series about the Symphony and to celebrate the diversity of the Symphony itself in the late 1800s - in three very contrasting works from Germany, Bohemia and Russia. The programme begins with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales live at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff playing one of Dvorak's best-loved Symphonies.

Dvorak: Symphony no. 8 in G major 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Clemens Schuldt (conductor)

c. 2.40pm 
Wagner: Gotterdammerung (excerpt)
Halle Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)

c. 2.50pm 
Brahms: Symphony no. 1 in C minor 
BBC Philharmonic
Christoph Konig (conductor)

c. 3.30pm
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B minor 
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky (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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