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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 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Episode 1

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1

Penny Gore presents the BBC SSO performing music by Berlioz, Chopin, Mahler and Zarzycki.

Penny Gore presents music from the BBC SSO. Berlioz: Overture (Beatrice et Benedict). Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2. Mahler: Symphony No 5. Zarzycki: Grand Polonaise, Op 7.

Penny Gore presents recent performances by the BBC Scottish SO, with a special focus on Fifth Symphonies. 

We start today with Mahler under conductor Robert Spano. Tomorrow it's the turn of Beethoven's Fifth, with Fifths by both Tchaikovsky and Sibelius to end the week on Friday. Thursday Opera Matinee continues this year's celebration of Verdi's 200th birthday with his Shakespearian masterpiece Otello.

Also today, a Berlioz Shakespearian overture, a Chopin piano concerto, and the first of three brand new recordings of much rarer Polish music for piano and orchestra, by Chopin's younger compatriots Aleksander Zarzycki and Wladyslaw Zelenski. 

Berlioz: Overture to Beatrice and Benedict
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

2.15pm
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Garrick Ohlsson (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

2.45pm
Mahler: Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Robert Spano (conductor).

4pm
Aleksander Zarzycki: Grande Polonaise for piano and orchestra, Op. 7
Jonathan Plowright (piano),
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a special focus on Fifth Symphonies

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring recent performances given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a special focus on Fifth Symphonies

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