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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 2

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 2

The BBC NOW in a live concert, performing music by Prokofiev, Kalinnikov and Rubbra.

Penny Gore presents the BBC NOW in a live concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall, with music by Prokofiev, Kalinnikov and Rubbra. Plus Pierne: Piano Concerto in C minor, Op 12.

With Penny Gore
Thomas Søndergård conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a live concert at BBC Hoddinott Hall Cardiff featuring two contrasted Russian works: Kalinnikov's robustly tuneful Symphony No.1 and Prokofiev's frenetic Symphony-Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, with Andreas Brantelid as soloist. The concert is presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas. That's followed by a Romantic Piano Concerto by Frenchman Gabriel Pierné peformed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and pianist Stephen Coombs. 

The Metaphysical poets are out in force this week on Afternoon on 3 in Kenneth Leighton's Symphony No.2 which you can hear this Thursday. Today they are represented in the writings of Welsh poet Henry Vaughan, which fired -up English composer Edmund Rubbra. His The Morning Watch is an elated work for chorus and orchestra, the choir entering with the words: 'O joys! infinite sweetness! with what flowers, And shoots of glory, my soul breaks, and buds!'

Prokofiev: Symphony-concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Andreas Brantelid (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård (conductor)

Kalinnikov: Symphony No 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård (conductor)

Gabriel Pierné: Piano Concerto in C Minor Op.12
Stephen Coombs (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)

Rubbra: The Morning Watch Op.55
BBC National Chorus of Wales 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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Penny Gore presents programmes featuring performances given by the BBC NOW

Penny Gore presents programmes featuring performances given by the BBC NOW, plus more in a series of Romantic piano concertos

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