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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: The Rest is Noise

Afternoon Concert: The Rest is Noise: Episode 4

The Rest is Noise

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, The Rest is Noise, Episode 4

BBC Concert Orchestra in music by Weill. Plus Bartok's Piano Concerto No 3.

Louise Fryer presents the BBC Concert Orchestra in Weill: The New Orpheus; Symphony No 2; A Stranger Here Myself. Plus Bartok's Piano Concerto No 3.

The Rest is Noise. With Louise Fryer. The BBC Concert Orchestra: Kurt Weill on Broadway - a concert sequence devised by Kim Kowalke & Keith Lockhart, from the year-long festival on London's South Bank.

Kurt Weill escaped from Berlin and the Nazis in 1933 and the only music he took with him was a draft of his 2nd Symphony. Like so many musicians and composers out of favour with the new regime in Germany, Weill headed west and made his way to New York and Broadway in particular.

In the second half of the concert we celebrate Kurt Weill's enduring legacy to music theatre in New York with songs from many of his Broadway successes.

Plus another Exile in New York. Bartok's 3rd Piano Concerto - harking back to a prewar Europe.


Weill: The New Orpheus; Symphony No. 2

Weill, arr. Kim H. Kowalke: song selection under the title "A Stranger Here Myself"
Charles Mutter (violin)
Ilona Domnich (soprano)
Susanna Hurrell (soprano)
Kathryn Martin (mezzo-soprano)
Paul Curievici (tenor)
Justin Hopkins (bass)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)


3.50pm
Bartok: Piano Concerto no. 3
Shai Wosner (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (cond).

Afternoon Concert: The Rest is Noise

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.

Performances given by the BBC Concert Orchestra at The Rest is Noise

Louise Fryer presents performances given by the BBC Concert Orchestra at The Rest is Noise, a festival at the Southbank Centre in London surveying the 20th century in music

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