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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 4

Part 4 Transatlantic Travel

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Transatlantic Travel, European Music in the USA, Part 4

Katie Derham presents Acts 3 and 4 of Verdi's Jerusalem. Plus Beethoven and Prokofiev.

Katie Derham presents Acts 3 and 4 of Verdi's opera Jerusalem. Plus Beethoven: Leonore Overture No 3; Prometheus Overture. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 (soloist: Lang Lang).

Verdi 200: The conclusion of Verdi's Jerusalem, written for Paris. The Crusaders are at the gates of the Holy City. Can the lovers Gaston and Hélène, captives of the Emir of Ramla in Jerusalem, be reunited? And can Gaston avoid certain death if the Crusader leader the Comte de Toulouse catches him? And will the Comte's brother Roger, now a hermit, reveal his secret to save the day ...?

Katie Derham ends this week's programmes with Lang Lang performing Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto in Cincinnati.


2pm
Verdi: Jerusalem

Acts 3 and 4

Hélène ..... Marina Mescheriakova (Soprano)
Gaston ..... Marcello Giordani (Tenor)
Roger ..... Roberto Scandiuzzi (Bass)
Le Conte de Toulouse ..... Philippe Rouillon (Bass)
Raymond ..... Simon Edwards (Tenor)
Isaure ..... Hélène Le Corre (Soprano)
Adhemar de Monteil ..... Daniel Borowski (Bass)

Geneva Grand Theatre Chorus
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Fabio Luisi (conductor)

3.25
Beethoven
Leonore Overture No 3, Op 72
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

3.40
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No 3 in C, Op 26
Lang Lang (piano)
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Long Yu (conductor)

4.20
Beethoven
The Creatures of Prometheus Overture
New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert (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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