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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 Performing Groups

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Performing Groups

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Performing Groups, Episode 4

The BBC SSO performs music by Debussy, Vaughan Williams and Borodin.

BBC SSO under Martyn Brabbins in a concert from City Halls, Glasgow. Debussy, orch Matthews: Piano Preludes. Vaughan Williams: Suite for viola and orchestra. Borodin: Symphony No 2.

Penny Gore continues this week's celebration of the BBC's performing groups in concert across the nation, featuring music by Tchaikovsky every day. 

Today Jamie MacDougall presents the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra LIVE concert at their home, City Halls in Glasgow.

With conductor Martyn Brabbins the orchestra explore the art of the arranger, in a selection of Colin Matthews' deft orchestrations of Debussy's Piano Preludes. Alongside these French works, re-imagined by an Englishman, we hear the music of an Englishman examining his own country's folk idioms, in Vaughan Williams' Suite for Viola and Orchestra, performed by that instrument's leading virtuoso, Lawrence Power.

Borodin's rousing Second Symphony, steeped in Russian heritage and infused with the lyricism and drama of the opera house, brings the orchestra to the fore to round off the concert.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups

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.

Penny Gore presents a celebration the BBC's own performing groups

Penny Gore presents a celebration the BBC's own performing groups, with concerts given across the nation. Featuring music by Tchaikovsky in every programme

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