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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 SSO and Singers

Afternoon Concert: BBC SSO and Singers: Episode 2: BBC SO live

BBC SO live

Episode 2

Episode 2: BBC SO live

BBC SSO and Singers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC SSO and Singers, BBC SO live

BBC Symphony Orchestra live, plus recent performances by the BBC SSO and BBC Singers.

The BBC SO in a live concert from Maida Vale with music by Martinu and Lindberg. Plus the BBC Scottish SO and BBC Singers in Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Pizzetti and Frank Martin.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra begin this afternoon with a live concert from the BBC Maida Vale studios, introduced by Andrew McGregor. Clarinettist, composer and former BBC Young Musician of the Year Mark Simpson joins the orchestra for Magnus Lindberg's stunning Clarinet Concerto. And Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Apollon Musagète Quartet are the orchestra's partners in a Martinu concerto continuing this week's theme of twentieth century music inspired by older music.

The BBC Singers continue that theme with beautiful choral music from the 1920s and 1930s inspired by Renaissance polyphony, and this week's featured orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, play a Stravinsky Concerto with Baroque roots, plus Rachmaninov.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

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Martinu: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
Apollon Musagète Quartet
2.20pm
Magnus Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto
Mark Simpson (clarinet),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Baldur Bronniman.


2.50pm
Ildebrando Pizzetti: 3 composizioni corali
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.

3.05pm
Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Donald Runnicles.

3.30pm
Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir
BBC Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.

3.55pm
Stravinsky: Concerto in D major (Basle Concerto)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Ilan Volkov.

Afternoon Concert: BBC SSO and Singers

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.

Recent performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Louise Fryer presents a series featuring recent performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

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