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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: Live Music from the BBC's Orchestras and Singers

Afternoon Concert: Live Music from the BBC's Orchestras and Singers: Episode 3

Episode 3

Live Music from the BBC's Orchestras and Singers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Live Music from the BBC's Orchestras and Singers, Episode 3

The BBC Concert Orchestra perform pieces by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Jonathan Dove.

Penny Gore with music played by the BBC SO and Philharmonic. Holst: The Perfect Fool. Dove: Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 in D. Arnold: Larch Trees.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Live at 2pm we join the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth at Cadogan Hall in London for a concert of British music, as part of Afternoon on 3's continuing focus of homegrown music and performers. The concert begins with Holst - his ballet music from the opera The Perfect Fool - and ends with the Fifth Symphony by Holst's close friend Vaughan Williams, written in the darkest days of the Second World War and premiered in 1943. 

Between these, the BBC Concert Orchestra give the world premiere performance of a piece by Jonathan Dove - Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese opposition politician. On Radio 3's highly successful Portrait Day in May this year, listeners were asked to suggest an individual for Jonathan Dove to compose a portrait of. This is the first chance to hear what Dove has come up with......

2pm
Holst: The Perfect Fool (ballet music)

Jonathan Dove: Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

3.20pm
Malcolm Arnold: Larch Trees
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Davis (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Live Music from the BBC's Orchestras and Singers

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Penny Gore presents music performed by the BBC's Orchestras and Singers

Penny Gore presents a series featuring live and recorded performances given by the BBC's Orchestras and Singers

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