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Afternoon on 3: Strauss 150

Afternoon Concert: Strauss 150: Episode 3

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Episode 3

Strauss 150

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Strauss 150, Episode 3

Live from the Ulster Hall. Strauss: Burleske; Le bourgeois gentilhomme.

Live from the Ulster Hall, Belfast. Strauss: Burleske (Barry Douglas - piano). Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Plus Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Strauss: Macbeth.

John Toal introduces the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Michael Seal, live from Belfast's Ulster Hall. Barry Douglas is the soloist in Richard Strauss's playful Burleske, a piano concerto in all but name, and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is a reinvention of French Baroque keyboard pieces made into a ballet by Strauss. Plus, Verity Sharpe presents Strauss's tone poem Macbeth recorded last month in Amsterdam by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons.

Richard Strauss: Burleske
Barry Douglas (piano)

2.25pm
Richard Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Ulster Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)

Richard Strauss: Macbeth
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Strauss 150

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.

Series of programmes marking the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss's birth

Programmes marking the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss's birth, including tone poems and concertos, plus music by two of the other composers he loved and performed the most, Mozart and Wagner.

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