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Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra Live

BBC Symphony Orchestra Live

12/02/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra Live

Katie Derham presents the BBC SO live, with pianist Pascal Roge in Poulenc and Satie.

Katie Derham presents a live concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra: music by Satie and Poulenc with pianist Pascal Roge. Plus a lullaby by Oliver Knussen and Dvorak's Water Goblin.

Presented by Katie Derham.
Live from the Maida Vale studios in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jean Deroyer perform a concert of French music.
The soloist in Poulenc's Concert Champetre is Pascal Rogé, who also performs and talks about solo piano music by both Poulenc and Satie. 
After the concert, the world premiere, recorded last month, of Malcolm Hayes' Byzantium with the BBC SO conducted by Garry Walker, and a piano lullaby by Oliver Knussen. The afternoon closes with the BBC SO under its chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek in music from his homeland: Dvorak's sinister symphonic poem The Water Goblin.

Fauré: Sicilienne

Poulenc: Concert Champêtre
Pascal Rogé (harpsichord)

Satie: Gymnopedie No. 1; Gnossiennes Nos. 2 & 5
Poulenc: Improvisations Nos. 12, 15 & 6
Pascal Rogé (piano)

3pm
Poulenc: Sinfonietta
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jean Deroyer (conductor)

3.35pm
Malcolm Hayes: Byzantium (World Premiere)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Garry Walker (conductor)

Oliver Knussen: Sonya's lullaby, Op. 16 (Part 2 of 'Triptych')
Richard Uttley (piano)

4pm
Dvorak: The Water Goblin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

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