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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: Transatlantic Travel: European Music in the USA

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: European Music in the USA: Part 2

European Music in the USA

Part 2 Transatlantic Travel

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Transatlantic Travel, European Music in the USA, Part 2

Katie Derham presents music by Weber, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Liszt and Wagner.

Presented by Katie Derham. Weber: Konzertstuck. Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus Suite. Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead. Liszt: Prometheus. Wagner: Gotterdammerung (excerpts).

Katie Derham continues her survey of performances of European music by USA orchestras.

Christian Zacharias is the soloist and director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, one of the USA's foremost chamber orchestras, in Weber and Christine Brewer is the soloist in extracts from Wagner's final Ring opera, Götterdämmerung.

2pm
Weber
Konzertstück in F minor, Op 79
Christian Zacharias (piano / director)
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

2.15
Beethoven
Suite from 'The Creatures of Prometheus', Op 43
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Christian Zacharias (director)

3pm
Rachmaninov
Isle of the Dead, Op 29
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Julian Kuerti (conductor)

Liszt
Prometheus - Symphonic Poem
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

3.40pm
Wagner
Götterdämmerung - excerpts
Christine Brewer (soprano)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra,
Esa Pekka Salonen (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: 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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