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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: Transatlantic Travel: European Music in the USA

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: European Music in the USA: Part 1

Part 1 Transatlantic Travel

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Transatlantic Travel, European Music in the USA, Part 1

American orchestras performing music by Beethoven, Liszt, Holst, Brahms and Stravinsky.

American orchestras in European music. Beethoven: Ah, Perfido!. Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1. Holst: Suite No 1 in E flat. Brahms: A German Requiem. Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919).

Katie Derham presents a week of US Orchestras in European repertoire. Including international soloists Lang Lang, Christian Zacharias and Christine Brewer.

Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist of Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte, ran a bookstore in Manhattan and Beethoven's family line ended with his great-nephew who worked for the Michigan Central Railroad Company in Detroit.

Transatlantic musical travel has been going on for centuries, and Afternoon on 3 begins a three-week survey of this "Special relationship". In this first week Afternoon on 3 features USA Orchestras in European repertoire. Next week the direction of travel is reversed with American music performed by BBC Orchestras, and in the third week the programme focuses on composers who sought refuge in the USA in the twentieth century.

This week features the New York Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra - and watch out for the Dallas Wind Symphony.

Each day we feature music by Beethoven, and a performance by a world-class soloist.

Beethoven
Ah, Perfido!, scene and aria for soprano and orchestra, Op 65
Christine Brewer (soprano)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Ward Stare (conductor)

2.15
Liszt
Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat, S124
Lang Lang (piano)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Jun Märkl (conductor)

2.40
Holst
Suite No 1 in E flat
Dallas Wind Symphony
Jerry Junkin (conductor)

2.55
Brahms
A German Requiem, Op 45
Jane Archibald (soprano)
Kyle Ketelsen (bass-baritone)
San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

4.10
Stravinsky
Firebird Suite (1919)
New York Philharmonic
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: European Music in the USA

European Music in the USA

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Series exploring transatlantic musical travel

Series exploring transatlantic musical travel, with performances by European and American orchestras in the US and Europe, as well as works by composers who sought refuge in the United States

Katie Derham presents programmes with American orchestras performing European repertoire

Katie Derham presents a series of programmes featuring American orchestras performing European repertoire, with music by Beethoven and a performance by a leading soloist

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