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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: Ulster Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra: Episode 3

Ulster Orchestra

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ulster Orchestra, Episode 3

Louise Fryer presents the Ulster Orchestra performing music by Haydn, Wagner and Schumann.

Louise Fryer with music played by the Ulster Orchestra. Haydn: Symphony No 99 in E flat. Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder (with Orla Boylan: soprano), Schumann: Symphony No 3 (Rhenish).

Today Louise Fryer showcases some of the Ulster Orchestra's most recent recordings, with a special focus on Austrian-German repertoire, including works by Haydn, Schumann and Wagner - his Wesendonck Lieder, featuring Irish soprano Orla Boylan.

Haydn: Symphony No.99 in E Flat
Ulster Orchestra
Jurgen Hempel (conductor)

c. 3.30pm
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Orla Boylan (soprano)
Ulster Orchestra
Jurgen Hempel (conductor)

c. 3.55pm
Schumann: Symphony No.3 (Rhenish)
Ulster Orchestra
Paul Watkins (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Ulster Orchestra

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.

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring the Ulster Orchestra in concert

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring the Ulster Orchestra in concert, with both live and recorded material, focusing on specific countries

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