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Afternoon Concert

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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

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Afternoon on 3: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Episode 2

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 2

The BBC SSO performs music by Maxwell Geddes, Rodrigo, Mozart, Prokofiev and Beethoven.

Katie Derham with music from the BBC SSO. Maxwell Geddes: Ombre. Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez. Mozart: Adagio for Glass Harmonica; Symphony No 41. Plus Prokofiev and Beethoven.

Katie Derham presents a week of Afternoon on 3 featuring recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a special focus on Russian composers. 

Today's programme finds the orchestra at Ayr Town Hall, including a complete concert conducted there by Andrew Manze just a couple of weeks ago. Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen plays part of Prokofiev's Six Pieces for Piano, continuing the week's Russian theme. By way of complement there's brand new music - a world premiere in John Maxwell Geddes' An Ayrshire Suite - and two great symphonies from the heart of the repertoire: Mozart's Jupiter and Beethoven's Pastoral. Andrew Manze conducts both, and we'll also hear his orchestration of Mozart's Adagio for Glass Harmonica. 

Maxwell Geddes: An Ayrshire Suite (world premiere)

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez 
Sean Shibe (guitar)

Mozart (orch. Manze): Adagio for Glass Harmonica

2.30pm
Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C major (Jupiter)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Manze (conductor).

c. 3pm
Prokofiev: 6 Pieces for Piano (Op 52)
Olli Mustonen (piano)

3.30pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F Major (Pastoral)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Manze (conductor).

Recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra feature throughout the week, including at least one symphony each day, by the likes of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, but also works complementing the Russian repertoire by Mozart, Beethoven, Britten and Bartok.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony 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.

Katie Derham presents highlights of 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 Russian composers

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