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Afternoon Concert

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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

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Afternoon on 3: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 1

BBC NOW in music by Haydn, Szymanowski, Brahms and Zemlinsky.

Penny Gore presents music from the BBC NOW. Haydn: Symphony No 73. Szymanowski: Concert Overture; Violin Concerto No 2. Brahms: Symphony No 1. Zemlinsky: Symphony No 1.

Penny Gore presents a week of highlights from recent performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard opens the week with Haydn and Tasmin Little is the violin soloist in Szymanowski's last major work. Brahms was present at Vienna's Musikverein in 1891 for the premiere of the First Symphony by Zemlinsky a composer who became the standard-bearer of the next generation of Viennese symphonists.

Haydn: Symphony No.73 in D (La chasse)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c. 2.20pm
Szymanowski: Concert Overture, Op.12; Violin Concerto No.2, Op.61

c.2.55pm
Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68
Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Olari Elts (conductor)

c.3.40pm
Zemlinsky: Symphony No.1 in D minor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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Penny Gore presents highlights from performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Penny Gore presents programmes featuring highlight performances given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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