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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 3

BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra

Episode 3

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

Presented by Louise Fryer. With Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 1, plus Schein and Scriabin.

Louise Fryer presents Russian repertoire and Baroque music for Holy Week, including Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 1, Schein's Ich will schweigenand and Scriabin's Symphony No 2.

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.


Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no. 1 in D flat major, Op.10
BBC SO,
Nikolai Lugansky (piano),
Conductor Jiri Belohlavek.

2.15pm
J H Schein: Ich will schweigen; Alleluja - Wohl dem, der den Heeren fürchtet
BBC Singers,
Conductor David Hill,
Stephen Farr (organ).

2.30pm
Scriabin: Symphony no. 2 in C minor, Op. 29
BBC SO,
Conductor Vassily Sinaisky.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Singers and 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.

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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