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Afternoon Concert

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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 Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra: Episode 1

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1

The BBC SO in Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Strauss, Szymanowski, Tippett and Chilly Gonzales.

Katie Derham with music from the BBC SO. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis. Elgar: Introduction and Allegro. Plus Strauss, Szymanowski and Tippett.

Katie Derham presents a week of recent performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with a special focus on concerts from their recent residency at the St Magnus International Festival in Orkney; and conductor Edward Gardner continues his survey of Szymanowski. Across the week we hear performances at the extreme ends of Great Britain, as well as some of the more distant places to which the orchestra has journeyed in recent years, with music played during concerts in South Korea, Malaysia and Greece.

Today there's a concert of classics for string orchestra recorded at Orkney's St Magnus Cathedral. Plus the Piano Concerto by the all-round entertainer, pianist, rapper and self-proclaimed 'musical genius', Chilly Gonzales.

Thursday's Opera Matinee is Donizetti's rarely heard opera Belisario, conducted in a new BBC SO recording by a noted interpreter of the composer, Sir Mark Elder. A first-rate cast revives the story of the 6th-century Byzantine general betrayed by his vengeful wife Antonina.

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
2.15pm
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
2.30pm
Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
BBC Symphony Orchestra (strings),
Andrew Gourlay (conductor).

3.00pm
Szymanowski: Stabat Mater
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Edward Gardner (conductor).

3.25pm
Tippett: Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

3.45pm
Chilly Gonzales: Piano Concerto
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Jules Buckley (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra

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Katie Derham presents recent performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Katie Derham presents programmes featuring recent performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, including music from their recent tour of Orkney and Szymanowski conducted by Edward Gardner

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