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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: British Symphonies

Afternoon Concert: British Symphonies: Episode 4

Episode 4

British Symphonies

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, British Symphonies, Episode 4

Jonathan Swain presents music by MacMillan, Wesley, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams.

With Jonathan Swain. MacMillan: Symphony No 3. Wesley: By the word of the Lord. Webern: Variations. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor). Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 9.

Jonathan Swain presents the last programme in this Afternoon on 3 week as part of Radio 3's continuing celebration of British music. Today's British symphonies are by Ralph Vaughan Williams - no. 9, his third symphony of the week - and James MacMillan, who conducts his own Third Symphony of 2002, entitled 'Silence' after the novel of the same name by the twentieth-century Japanese writer Shusaku Endo.

Plus the Beethoven, Webern and the BBC Singers round off their series of choral music by Samuel Sebastian Wesley.

James MacMillan: Symphony no. 3 (Silence)
BBC Philharmonic,
James MacMillan (conductor).

2.35pm
S S Wesley: By the word of the Lord
Olivia Robinson (soprano),
Lynette Alcantara (mezzo-soprano),
Robert Johnston (tenor),
Andrew Rupp (bass),
Richard Pearce (piano),
BBC Singers,
Paul Brough (conductor).

2.55pm
Webern: Variations for Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra,
Jurjen Hempel (conductor).

3.00pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat (Emperor)
Steven Osborne (piano)

3.40pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no. 9
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Manze (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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