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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: Great Ballets of the Twentieth Century

Afternoon Concert: Great Ballets of the Twentieth Century: Episode 4

Great Ballets of the Twentieth Century

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Great Ballets of the Twentieth Century, Episode 4

Ian Skelly presents 20th-century ballet music, by Bartok and Stravinsky. Plus Haydn.

Ian Skelly presents 20th-century ballet music. Including Bartok: Ballet Music (The Wooden Prince). Stravinsky: Suite (Le baiser de la fee). Plus Haydn: Winter (The Seasons).

Great Ballets of the Twentieth Century.
Presented by Ian Skelly.

In the final programme this week, Bartok's seldom-heard pantomime ballet The Wooden Prince, written during the First World War. The dark colours of Bartok's enormous orchestra seem to be light years away from the gossamer textures of The Fairy's Kiss, Stravinsky's 1928 homage to his hero, Tchaikovsky.

Bartok
The Wooden Prince, op 60. ballet music
Berlin Philharmoniker, Alan Gilbert (conductor)

c. 3.00pm
Haydn
Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), oratorio, Hob. XXI:3: Winter
Simon ..... Daniel Schmutzhard (baritone),
Hanne ..... Robin Johannsen (soprano),
Lukas ..... Daniel Behler (tenor),
RIAS Chamber Choir,
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann (conductor)

c. 3.45pm
Stravinsky
Suite from 'Le Baiser de la fée' (1934)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Great Ballets of the Twentieth Century

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Louise Fryer explores colourful ballet scores which changed the course of music history

Louise Fryer explores some of the colourful ballet scores which changed the course of music history. Plus Germany's leading period instrument ensemble in Haydn's oratorio The Seasons

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