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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: British Symphonies

Afternoon Concert: British Symphonies: Episode 3

Episode 3

British Symphonies

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, British Symphonies, Episode 3

Jonathan Swain with music by Beethoven, Elizabeth Maconchy, Wesley and Vaughan Williams.

With Jonathan Swain. Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 3. Elizabeth Maconchy: Symphony for double string orchestra. Wesley: The Mermaid. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5.

Jonathan Swain continues Afternoon on 3's month-long celebration of British symphonies with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra. Today he introduces works by Ralph Vaughan Williams - the well-loved Fifth Symphony - and by VW's one-time composition student Elizabeth Maconchy, who blazed a trail, becoming in 1959 the first woman to chair the Composers' Guild of Great Britain. Plus more choral music by Samuel Sebastian Wesley from the BBC Singers.

Beethoven: Overture - Leonore no. 3
Ulster Orchestra,
Paul Watkins (conductor).

2.10pm
Elizabeth Maconchy: Symphony for Double String Orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Odaline de la Martinez (conductor).

2.35pm
S S Wesley: The Mermaid
BBC Singers,
Paul Brough (conductor).

2.40pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no. 5
Ulster Orchestra,
Howard Shelley (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: British Symphonies

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Continuing a celebration of British symphonies with the BBC SSO and the Ulster Orchestra

Jonathan Swain continues a celebration of British symphonies with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra

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