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Afternoon Concert

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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

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Afternoon on 3: Britten around Britten

Afternoon Concert: Britten around Britten: Episode 4

Britten around Britten

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Britten around Britten, Episode 4

Katie Derham presents music by McCabe, Britten, Mozart, Panufnik and Dvorak.

Katie Derham celebrates Britten's centenary. McCabe: Symphony No 4. Britten: Diversions; Phaedra. Mozart: Symphony No 31. Panufnik: Katyn Epitaph. Dvorak: Symphony No 7 in D minor.

Katie Derham makes a lightning fast tour around four of the BBC's Orchestras - from Ulster, Wales, Scotland and England - to conclude her week celebrating the music of Benjamin Britten in his centenary year, and launching a month-long series of British symphonies in Afternoon on 3.

Every Friday in June Afternoon on 3 will feature a symphony by a living British composer: today it's John McCabe. You can hear two works by Britten, plus music by his Polish-born contemporary Andrzej Panufnik, Mozart and Dvorak. 

John McCabe: Symphony No. 4 (Of Time and the River)
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Vernon Handley (conductor).

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Britten: Diversions for piano left hand and orchestra
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D major, K.297 (Paris)
Finghin Collins (piano),
Ulster Orchestra,
Alan Buribayev (conductor).

1510
Panufnik: Katyn Epitaph
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor).

1530
Britten: Phaedra
Ruby Hughes (soprano),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

1545
Dvorak: Symphony no. 7 in D minor 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Britten around Britten

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Katie Derham presents a series of programmes celebrating Britten in his centenary year

Katie Derham presents a series of programmes celebrating Benjamin Britten in his centenary year, and launches a series featuring British symphonies

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