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Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon on 3: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 3

The BBC SSO in music by Debussy, Berlioz, Julian Anderson, Messiaen and Mozart.

Music performed by the BBC SSO. Debussy: Le Martyre de St Sebastien. Berlioz: La mort de Cleopatre. Julian Anderson: Eden. Messiaen: Un Sourire. Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D.

Penny Gore presents highlights from recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, including their special focus on music from 1911. Today there's a chance to hear from two more of the orchestra's family of conductors: Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov and Artist-in-Association Matthias Pintscher.

To conclude this week's music from the year 1911, Ilan Volkov guides the orchestra through Debussy's hedonistic vision of Le Martyre de St Sebastien. It's coupled in this concert recorded at the Music Hall in Aberdeen with music by Julian Anderson and Berlioz's Death of Cleopatra, sung by the Romanian mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose.

Echoes of the sonorities of Debussy's orchestral work reemerge in a later generation of French composers with Un Sourire - A Smile - Olivier Messiaen's orchestral tribute to Mozart. So it's paired this afternoon with Mozart's 'Prague' Symphony, No. 38.

Debussy: Le Martyre de St Sebastien - symphonic fragments
Berlioz: La Mort de Cleopatre 
Julian Anderson: Eden
Ruxandra Donose (soprano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Ilan Volkov (conductor).

Messiaen: Un Sourire 
Mozart: Symphony no. 38 in D major (Prague), K. 504
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Matthias Pintscher (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Penny Gore presents highlights of concerts given by the BBC SSO. Including a focus on 1911

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes of highlights from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's concerts in 2011, including their special focus on music from 1911

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