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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

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Afternoon Concert: Afternoon on 3: Episode 2

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Music from Swiss ensembles. With Mussorgsky, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Strauss and Beethoven.

Music from Swiss ensembles. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder. Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture. Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D. Beethoven: Symphony No 3.

Katie Derham continues her survey of recent live concert recordings from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Lausanne Chamber Orchestra who perform two cornerstones of the repertoire, Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Beethoven's groundbreaking 'Eroica' Symphony. They're joined by renowned mezzo Violetta Urmana in Mahler and Lucas Macías Navarro who takes a break from his day job as the principal oboe of Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to play Strauss's concerto.

Mussorgsky / Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Violeta Urmana, mezzo
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Neeme Järvi (conductor)

3.00 pm
Mendelssohn: Overture, The Hebrides ('Fingal's Cave')

Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D
Lucas Macías Navarro (oboe)

3.40 pm
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op 55 ('Eroica')
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Afternoon on 3

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Performances by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Katie Derham presents programmes exploring the wide-ranging repertoire of two of Switzerland's most distinguished ensembles: the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

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