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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

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 4

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 4

The BBC NOW in music by Brahms, Napoleao, Sibelius, Robert Simpson and Brahms.

BBC NOW in Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn. Napoleao: Piano Concerto No 1. Sibelius: Valse triste; The Cranes (Kuolema). R Simpson: Cello Concerto. Brahms: Symphony No 1.

Katie Derham concludes her focus on the work of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with two masterworks by Brahms and the last of the three concertos heard this week written for and recently recorded by Raphael Wallfisch. Also today, Artur Pizarro reveals another nineteenth century piano concerto, this time by the Portuguese-Brazilian, Alfredo Napoleão.

Brahms
Variations on on a Theme of Haydn
BBC NOW, Josep Caballé-Domenech (conductor)

c. 2.20pm
Alfredo Napoleão 
Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat minor, Op 31
Artur Pizarro (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c. 2.50pm
Sibelius
Valse triste; The Cranes - from incidental music to Kuolema Op.44
BBC NOW, Richard Hickox (conductor)

c. 3.05pm
Robert Simpson
Cello Concerto (1991)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Wiiliam Boughton (conductor)

c.3.35pm:
Brahms Symphony No. 1 (Op.68) in C minor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (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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