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Afternoon Concert

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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: Commonwealth Orchestras

Afternoon Concert: Commonwealth Orchestras: Episode 3

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Episode 3

Commonwealth Orchestras

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Commonwealth Orchestras, Episode 3

Katie Derham presents music by Bach, Poulenc, Brahms and Wagner.

Presented by Katie Derham. Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue, BWV582. Poulenc: Organ Concerto in G minor. Brahms: Symphony No 2. Wagner: Die Meistersinger Overture.

Katie Derham presents a concert from Melbourne Town Hall with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - of which he has recently become Principal Conductor. The concert begins with an arrangement by Davis of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue and ends with Brahms 2nd Symphony. Between the two, Cameron Carpenter is the soloist in Poulenc's Organ Concerto.

The programme ends with a nod towards tomorrow's Strauss 150 Opera Matinee - Feuersnot - Fire Famine. Strauss's one-act comedy upbraiding the residents of Munich for their indifference and hostility towards one of Strauss's heroes - Wagner.

2pm
Bach arranged Andrew Davis
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

2.10
Poulenc
Organ Concerto in G minor
Cameron Carpenter (soloist)

2.30
Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D, op. 73
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
(conductor)

3.15
Wagner
Overture to Die Meistersinger
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Commonwealth Orchestras

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.

Katie Derham presents performances by orchestras from Australia, New Zealand and Canada

Katie Derham presents performances given by orchestras from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, including from Vladimir Ashkenazy's final year in charge of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

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