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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 Philharmonic on Tour

Afternoon Concert: BBC Philharmonic on Tour: Episode 3

BBC Philharmonic on Tour

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Philharmonic on Tour, Episode 3

Katie Derham presents the BBC Philharmonic in music by Britten, Schubert and Tchaikovsky.

Katie Derham presents music performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. Schubert: Symphony No 8. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1.

With Katie Derham.

The BBC Philharmonic returned just a couple of weeks ago from Japan, and they end this Afternoon on 3 with a performance from that tour: Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii and Japanses conductor Yutaka Sado.

Before that, you can hear the orchestra in earlier visits to Spain and Germany: Gianandrea Noseda conducts Britten's passionate Sinfonia da Requiem in Barcelona, and his successor as the BBC Philharmonic's Chief Conductor, Juanjo Mena, conducts Schubert's Unfinished Symphony in Nuremberg.

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
BBC Philharmonic,
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

2.15pm
Schubert: Symphony No 8 in B minor, D 759 (Unfinished)
BBC Philharmonic,
Juanjo Mena (conductor).

2.40pm
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano),
BBC Philharmonic,
Yutaka Sado (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Philharmonic on Tour

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.

Featuring music performed by the BBC Philharmonic on tour in Japan and in Europe

Katie Derham presents a series of programmes featuring music performed by the BBC Philharmonic on tour in Japan and in Europe

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