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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from Dorchester Abbey

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from Dorchester Abbey: Episode 1: Parry, Curtis, Vaughan Williams, Ireland

Parry, Curtis, Vaughan Williams, Ireland

Episode 1

Episode 1: Parry, Curtis, Vaughan Williams, Ireland

Live from Dorchester Abbey

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Live from Dorchester Abbey, Parry, Curtis, Vaughan Williams, Ireland

Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in music by Parry, Curtis and Ireland.

Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra. Parry: Jerusalem. Curtis: Festival Overture. Vaughan Williams: Piano Fantasy (world premiere). Ireland: Legend.

Live from Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-On-Thames

Presented by Catherine Bott 

The opening concert from this year's English Music Festival in Dorchester-on-Thames. The BBC Concert Orchestra are joined by pianist Mark Bebbington in John Ireland's Legend and the first performance of an early work by Vaughan Williams, his Piano Fantasia. The concert ends with another premiere: conductor Martin Yates's completion of Moeran's Second Symphony.

Parry: Jerusalem
Curtis: Festival Overture
Vaughan Williams: Piano Fantasia (World Premiere)
Ireland: Legend

Mark Bebbington (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates (conductor).

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.

The opening concert from the 2012 English Music Festival in Dorchester-on-Thames

From Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, Catherine Bott presents the opening concert from the 2012 English Music Festival in Dorchester-on-Thames

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