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Afternoon on 3: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Episode 1

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1

Katie Derham with music by Bacewicz, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Gabriel Jackson, Elgar.

With Katie Derham. BBC SSO in Bacewicz: Concerto for string orchestra. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3. Plus Walford Davies, Gabriel Jackson, Elgar.

Katie Derham presents a week of Afternoon on 3 featuring recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, today joined by the BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra, with a special focus on music reflecting Armistice Day and the experience of the First World War.

Walford Davies: A Short Requiem "In sacred memory of all those who have fallen in the war" 
BBC Singers,
Paul Brough (conductor),
Richard Pearce (organ).

2.15pm
Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, 
Andrew Manze (conductor).

2.30pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major
Steven Osborne (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, 
Andrew Manze (conductor).

3.05pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no. 3 (Pastoral)
Ruby Hughes (soprano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, 
Andrew Manze (conductor).

3.45pm
Gabriel Jackson: Requiem 
BBC Singers, 
David Hill (conductor).

4.15pm
Elgar: Le Drapeau Belge, Op. 79 
Simon Callow (speaker),
BBC Concert Orchestra,
John Wilson (conductor).

Recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra feature throughout the week, including at least one Symphony every day: Schubert, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, and three Symphonies by Vaughan Williams. And Vaughan Williams is the link with the other main thread in this week's programmes: the First World War, to reflect Armistice Day. VW was an ambulance driver in Flanders in WW1, and his experiences there underpin his 'Pastoral' Symphony, which you can hear shortly after 3pm today. Tuesday's programme includes 'The Lark Ascending', possibly VW's best-loved work, which he sketched in Kent as troop ships sailed for France at the start of the War, but which wasn't heard until after it had ended.

Throughout the week there will also be music from a new Elgar CD to be released very soon by the BBC Concert Orchestra with conductor John Wilson, which also makes a special feature of music connected with WW1. And today's programme spreads the net to include memorial music by Walford Davies and Gabriel Jackson.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Katie Derham presents concerts given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Katie Derham presents a series programmes featuring concerts given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. With a special focus on music reflecting the experience of war

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