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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: Transatlantic Travel: American Emigres

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: American Emigres: Part 4

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Part 4 Transatlantic Travel

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Transatlantic Travel, American Emigres, Part 4

With the BBC SO performing music by Ives, Hindemith and Weill live. Plus Bloch and Dvorak.

Music from emigre composers. With the BBC SO live: Ives: The Fourth of July; Decoration Day. Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto. Weill: Four Songs of Walt Whitman. Plus Bloch and Dvorak.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studio 1 in London in the second live concert of this week celebrating the music composed by Europeans in exile in the United States of America. Pieces by émigré composers Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill are framed by two movements from the Holidays Symphony by American modernist Charles Ives.

Following the concert, Louise Fryer rounds off the week with two of the most famous works written by Europeans in the USA: Bloch's 'Hebrew Rhapsody' Schelomo, expressing emotion he felt stemming from his Jewish heritage, and Dvorak's nostalgic Ninth Symphony: From the New World.

LIVE from Maida Vale Studio 1, London
Ives: The Fourth of July (from Holidays Symphony)
Hindemith: Clarinet Concerto
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Weill: 4 Songs of Walt Whitman
Robin Tritschler (tenor)
Ives: Decoration Day (from Holidays Symphony)
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Sakari Oramo (conductor).

3.20pm
Bloch: Schelomo
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello),
BBC Philharmonic,
Paul Daniel (conductor).

3.40pm
Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 (From the New World)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales,
Nicholas Collon (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel

Afternoon Concert: Transatlantic Travel: American Emigres

American Emigres

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

Music written in exile by the many 20th-century European composers who fled to the USA

Series of programmes centring on music written in exile by the many 20th-century European composers who fled to the USA

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