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The world's longest-running live orchestral programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra

The world's longest-running live orchestral music programme on radio, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast from locations throughout the UK

Friday Night Is Music Night

Sunday Night is Music Night: Flora, Fauna and Frolics

Music: Classical

24/05/2013

Flora, Fauna and Frolics

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, Flora, Fauna and Frolics

Friday Night is Music Night goes green-fingered for a special garden themed show.

Vanessa Feltz goes green-fingered for a special garden-themed show. Includes Interval, with a tour round the Chelsea Physic Garden, London's oldest botanical garden.

Friday Night is Music Night goes all green-fingered for a special garden themed show presented by Vanessa Feltz. We prove that apart from love nothing has influenced the world's great composers more than horticulture. Gavin Sutherland conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a musical bouquet including the Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee

Special guests include the Operababes(Rebecca Knight and Karen England) who perform the Flower Duet from Lakme and Claire Jones, harpist to HRH Prince of Wales, joins the BBC Concert Orchestra in music from the Highgrove Suite by Patrick Hawes.

First broadcast in May 2013.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

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