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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: Russian Music

Afternoon Concert: Russian Music: Episode 2

Russian Music

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Russian Music, Episode 2

Penny Gore presents Russian music and the BBC Concert Orchestra in 'Music to Die For'.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Concert Orchestra performing music written for funerals and on the subject of death. Plus a work by Rubbra and the BBC SSO in Prokofiev and Strauss.

Today's Afternoon on 3 features a concert from the BBC Concert Orchestra called 'Music to Die For', presented by John Hannah and including some of the wealth of music written for funerals, and on the subject of death. Today's Russian Concerto is Prokofiev's Piano Concerto no. 4 performed by Denis Kozhukhin with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and there's more from the BBC Singers' celebration of the music of Edmund Rubbra.

Presented by Penny Gore. 

2pm
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre 
Mozart: Confutatis and Lacrimosa from Requiem 
Mahler: 'Der Abschied' from Das Lied von der Erde 
2.45pm
Purcell: March from Funeral Music for Queen Mary
Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela 
Tavener: Song for Athene
Barber: Adagio
Faure: 'In Paradisum' from Requiem
Verdi: 'Libera Me' from Requiem
BBC CO
Keith Lockhart
Ilona Domnich (soprano)
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
Hertfordshire Chorus
David Temple (conductor)
Presented by John Hannah

3.30pm
Rubbra: Dormi Jesu, Op. 3 no. 1 
Two Madrigals, Op. 52 
BBC Singers 
David Hill (conductor)

3.40pm
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 in B flat major (for the left hand) 
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
4pm
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jun Markl (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Russian Music

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Penny Gore presents BBC orchestras performing Russian music

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC orchestras performing Russian music, plus the BBC Singers in a studio recording of music by Rubbra

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