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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: Music for the Theatre

Afternoon Concert: Music for the Theatre: Episode 7

Episode 7

Music for the Theatre

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Music for the Theatre, Episode 7

Penny Gore presents music by Walton, Faure and Stravinsky.

Penny Gore presents music associated with the theatre. Walton: The Wise Virgins - complete ballet music (after Bach). Faure: Pelleas and Melisande. Stravinsky: The Firebird (1919).

Penny Gore presents the BBC's orchestras in more music for the theatre, including our daily helping of British music. There's another theatre score inspired by the plays of Maurice Maeterlinck: Faure's 'Pelleas et Melisande'. Plus music by JS Bach dressed up by William Walton for the ballet 'The Wise Virgins'; and more ballet music by Stravinsky on the legend of the Phoenix -'The Firebird'.

Walton:
The Wise Virgins - complete ballet music (after JS Bach)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)


Faure:
Pelleas & Melisande (Suite from the Incidental music)
Ulster Orchestra
Pascal Rophe (conductor)

Stravinsky:
The Firebird (1919 version)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Juanjo Mena (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Music for the Theatre

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.

Jonathan Swain presents programmes focusing on music associated with the theatre

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