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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 National Orchestra of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 2

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 2

Katie Derham presents the BBC NOW in Messiaen, Saint-Saens, Sibelius, Jolivet, Dutilleux.

With music performed by the BBC NOW. Messiaen: Les Offrandes Oubliees. Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No 1. Sibelius: Symphony No 2. Jolivet: Symphony No 3. Dutilleux: Symphony No 2.

Continuing this week's portrait of composer Andre Jolivet, Katie Derham presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing the Frenchman's Third Symphony in the presence of his daughter, Christine Jolivet-Erlih. She talks to us about also being at the 1964 premiere of her father's work in Mexico. 

With music by one of Jolivet's contemporaries, and fellow members of the 1930s Parisian group 'La Jeune France', the BBC NOW's incoming Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard conducts Messiaen's Les Offrandes Oubliees, and is joined by soloist Steven Isserlis for Saint-Saens' first Cello Concerto. Plus incumbent Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer leads the orchestra in the Second Symphony by Henri Dutilleux, at a concert given in Cardiff in the presence of the composer himself - aged 95, he is still writing music today.

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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.

Katie Derham presents a series of concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Katie Derham presents a series of concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, including a special focus on music by French composer Andre Jolivet

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