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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: BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra: Episode 2

BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra, Episode 2

Louise Fryer presents music by MacMillan, Gubaidulina, De Sabata, Calvisius and Prokofiev.

Louise Fryer presents Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra playing MacMillan, Gubaidulina and De Sabata live. Plus Calvisius and Prokofiev.

Louise Fryer presents a week of programmes featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week. As part of Radio 3's Baroque Spring, the BBC Singers perform motets by J S Bach and his predecessors and successors in the post of Cantor at St Thomas's Church in Leipzig. The BBC Symphony play pieces by Prokofiev and his Russian forefathers and contemporaries.

Today's programme starts with a live concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra from their London home at the BBC's Maida Vale studios. Martyn Brabbins conducts a special Holy Week selection of music by two living composers - Scotsman James MacMillan and Russian Sofia Gubaidulina - together with a rarely heard Easter-inspired symphonic poem by the famous Italian conductor (and composer) Victor De Sabata.

Plus the BBC Singers with music by one of J S Bach's Leipzig predecessors, and a Prokofiev Symphony performed a couple of weeks ago by the BBC SO.

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James MacMillan: Exsultet
Gubaidulina: Seven Words
with James Crabb (bayan) and David Cohen (cello)
2.45pm
Victor de Sabata: Gethsemani
BBC SO,
Conductor Martyn Brabbins.

3.15pm
Sethus Calvisius: Unser leben währet siebzig Jahr; Zion spricht: Der Herr hat mich verlassen
BBC Singers,
Conductor David Hill,
Stephen Farr (organ).

3.40pm
Prokofiev: Symphony no. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 131
BBCSO,
Conductor Alan Buribayev.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in Russian repertoire and music for Holy Week

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