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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 Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra: Episode 2: BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Prague Spring Festival

BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Prague Spring Festival

Episode 2

Episode 2: BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Prague Spring Festival

BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Jiri Belohlavek takes his BBC SO home to Prague - music by Ravel, Tippett, Suk and Martinu

The BBC SO's Czech Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek takes them home to the Prague Spring Festival: Penny Gore presents music by Ravel, Englishman Tippett, and Czechs Suk & Martinu.

Penny Gore continues her week featuring recent tour concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today their outgoing Chief Conductor, the Czech Jiri Belohlavek, takes his orchestra home with him - to perform English, Czech and French music at the 2012 Prague Spring Festival in May. The dancing rhythms and rapt serenity of Michael Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra is juxtaposed with the remarkable forty-minute span of The Ripening by Dvorak's son-in-law Josef Suk, and Bohuslav Martinu's Fourth Symphony. Plus Ravel - Argentinian mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink joins the BBC SO in Prague for his smoochy ShÃ(c)hÃ(c)razade, and 60th birthday boy Oliver Knussen conducts the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales back home in London.

Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra 
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

c. 2.20pm
Ravel: ShÃ(c)hÃ(c)razade 
Bernarda Fink (mezzo),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

c. 2.40pm
Suk: The Ripening, Op. 34
KÃ1/4hn Female Chorus,
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

c. 3.20pm
Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales 
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Oliver Knussen (conductor).

c. 3.45pm
Martinu: Symphony no. 4
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra

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