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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: Best of 2013

Afternoon Concert: Best of 2013: Episode 3

Best of 2013

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Best of 2013, Episode 3

Penny Gore presents music by Copland, Rutter and Walton.

Presented by Penny Gore. Ulster Orchestra in Copland: Music for Movies. BBC Singers in Rutter: I My Best-Beloved's Am. BBC CO in Walton: A Shakespeare Scenario (Henry V).

Afternoon on 3 celebrates the BBC's orchestras and choirs with some of their highlight performances from 2013. Today there's music for the movies and the stage: Copland from the Ulster Orchestra, and Walton's Henry V performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra as part of their Music from the Home Front concert of pieces written during World War 2. Plus the BBC Singers with some best-beloved choral music by John Rutter.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Copland: Music for Movies
Ulster Orchestra,
Pierre André-Valade (conductor).

2.15pm
John Rutter: I my Best-Beloved's am
BBC Singers,
Stephen Disley (organ).
Stephen Cleobury (conductor).

2.20pm
Walton arr Palmer: Henry V - A Shakespeare Scenario
Samuel West (reciter),
Hertfordshire Chorus,
BBC Concert Orchestra,
Keith Lockhart (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Best of 2013

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Penny Gore presents highlight performances given by the BBC's orchestras and choirs

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