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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: Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave

Afternoon Concert: Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave: Episode 2

Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave, Episode 2

Music by Britten, Stravinsky, Musgrave, Shostakovich, Askenars, Debussy, Wagner and Brahms

With Katie Derham. Britten: Festival Te Deum. Stravinsky: Firebird. Musgrave: On the Underground Set 1. Plus Shostakovich, Askenars, Debussy, Wagner and Brahms.

Katie Derham continues a week of programmes featuring performances from the Thea Musgrave 'Total Immersion' weekend at the Barbican with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. Looking ahead to Ravel Day on Friday, we've pieces by composers whose music influenced him, including Debussy, Wagner and Stravinsky, and another new piece for choir developed in workshops during the last year with the BBC Singers

2pm
Britten
Festival Te Deum Op.32
BBC Singers
Iain Farrington (organ)
David Hill (conductor)

2.10pm
Stravinsky
The Firebird - suite (1945)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

2.40pm
Thea Musgrave
On the Underground, Set 1: On Gratitude, Love and Madness (1994)
BBC Singers
Paul Brough (conductor)

2.50pm
Shostakovich
Six Songs (Romances), Op. 21
Robin Tritschler (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Parry (conductor)

3pm
Stravinsky
Circus Polka
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

3.05pm
Rubens Askenars
Cuerpos Futuros
BBC Singers
Matthew Hamilton (conductor)

3.10pm
Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

3.20pm
Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Renes (conductor)

3.45pm
Brahms
Symphony No.4 in E minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave

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Programmes featuring performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers at the Total Immersion: Thea Musgrave weekend at the Barbican in London

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