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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

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: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 2

Includes live from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, BBC NOW in Wagner, Mozart and Strauss.

The BBC NOW live from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff: Wagner: Overture (Tannhauser). Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21. Strauss: Aus Italien. Joubert: Concerto in Two Movements.

Live from Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. The BBC National Orchestra perform Wagner, Mozart and Richard Strauss.
And after that, this week's profile of the recent work of the BBC NOW continues with a cello concerto written for Raphael Wallfisch and a colourful song for soprano and orchestra by Grace Williams with a the text from Book Five of Milton's Paradise Lost..

2pm LIVE from Hoddinott Hall presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Wagner
Overture to Tannhäuser
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cornelius Meister (conductor)

c. 2.15pm
Mozart
Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major K.467
Zizhou Zhang (piano),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cornelius Meister (conductor)

c. 2.40pm during the interval
Berlioz
Scene d'amour from Romeo et Juliette
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Nicholas Collon (conductor)

LIVE
c. 3pm
Richard Strauss
Aus Italien Op.16
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cornelius Meister (conductor)

then at c. 4pm with Catriona Young
Joubert
Concerto in Two Movements
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, William Boughton (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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 music performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Katie Derham presents a series of programmes profiling the recent music-making of the BBC NOW in the concert hall and in the recording studio

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