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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: Americana

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: Americana: Part 1

Part 1 Transatlantic Travel

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Transatlantic Travel, Americana, Part 1

Penny Gore presents music by Gershwin, Ives, Carter, Argento, Barber, Adams and Beach.

Presented by Penny Gore. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue. Ives: 3 Places in New England. Carter: To Music. Barber: God's Grandeur. Adams: Shaker Loops. Beach: Symphony, Op 32 (Gaelic).

It's an all-American week on Afternoon on 3, featuring the BBC performing groups in live concerts and specially made recordings of music by American composers. Today begins with one of the most American of works - Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, before Charles Ives celebrates his native New England and the BBC Singers perform music by Elliott Carter and Samuel Barber. Tenor Samuel Boden joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the suite from Dominick Argento's opera based on the life of Edgar Allan Poe, before one of the most thrilling of all American minimalist pieces, Shaker Loops by John Adams. And the afternoon ends with a Symphony by the most famous of the early American female composers, Amy Beach.

Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Wayne Marshall (piano),
BBC Philharmonic,
Arvo Volmer (conductor).

Ives: Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set No 1)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Nicholas Collon (conductor).

2.35pm
Elliott Carter: To Music
BBC Singers,
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).

Argento: Le Tombeau d' Edgar Poe
Samuel Boden (tenor),
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Giancarlo Guerrero (conductor).

3pm
Barber: God's Grandeur; To be sung on the water
BBC Singers,
Andrew Griffiths (conductor).

John Adams: Shaker Loops
BBC Philharmonic,
Clark Rundell (conductor).

3.40pm
Beach: Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 (Gaelic)
Ulster Orchestra,
JoAnn Falletta (conductor).

This week's Thursday Opera Matinee is a Lyon Opera production of Der Kaiser von Atlantis - The Emperor of Atlantis, written in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt (Terezín) during World War Two by the Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann and librettist Peter Kien - who both died in Auschwitz in 1944.

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: Americana

Americana

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

Programmes featuring the BBC performing groups in music by American composers

Penny Gore presents programmes featuring the BBC performing groups in live concerts and specially-made recordings of music by American composers

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