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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 music by Rozsa, Bartok, Arriaga, Mozart and Sibelius.

Katie Derham with music from the BBC NOW. Rozsa: 3 Hungarian Sketches. Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3. Arriaga: Los esclavos felices. Mozart: Symphony No 40. Sibelius: Symphony No 4.

Katie Derham continues a week of programmes showcasing performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

In a recent concert from the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea, we hear Mozart's final symphony, the 'Jupiter' - a work whose complexity and ambiguity of mood continued to perplex critics long after the composer's death. This is paired with an overture by a composer sometimes known as 'the Spanish Mozart': Juan Crisostomo Arriaga. The programme begins in Hungary with two 20th-century composers who settled in the USA. Bartok's final work, his Third Piano Concerto, is performed by Welsh soloist Llyr Williams. Miklos Rózsa led what he called a 'double life', composing both for Hollywood films (including Ben-Hur, El Cid and Hitchcock's Spellbound) and the concert platform.

In the Fourth Symphony by Sibelius, Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard explores one of the composer's darkest works for orchestra. Composed during a period of personal and professional despair, it's a work that - as Sibelius said - has 'nothing of the circus about it'.

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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