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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 National Orchestra of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 1

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 1

The BBC NOW in music by Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Haydn and Shostakovich.

Katie Derham with music from the BBC NOW. Schumann: Overture (Genoveva). Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto. Prokofiev: Symphony No 1. Haydn: Symphony No 104. Shostakovich: Symphony No 5.

Katie Derham presents a week of programmes featuring recent concerts by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Classical and neo-classical music mix in a recent concert from Aberystwyth: Haydn's final symphony is preceded by Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, an imagining of what the old master might have written had he lived in the twentieth century. Norwegian virtuoso Vilde Frang is the soloist in Tchaikovsky's much-loved Violin Concerto.

The orchestra's Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer takes the helm in the Fifth Symphony by Shostakovich, written in 1937 against the uneasy backdrop of Stalin's Great Purge.

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 recent concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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

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