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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: Music in the Great War

Afternoon Concert: Music in the Great War: Episode 9: The World at War: Empires and Other Fronts

The World at War: Empires and Other Fronts

Episode 9

Episode 9: The World at War: Empires and Other Fronts

Music in the Great War

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Music in the Great War, The World at War: Empires and Other Fronts

Katie Derham presents music by Rudi Stephan, Parry and Schubert.

With Katie Derham. Including Rudi Stephan's opera Die Ersten Menschen. Plus Parry: The Chivalry of the Sea and Schubert: Symphony No 4 in C minor (Tragic).

Katie Derham continues Radio 3's Music in the Great War season with Empires and other fronts, including, appropriately for our opera matinee, Die Erste Menschen, The First Men, an opera by Rudi Stephan, a promising German composer killed at the war, which is performed by the Orchestre National de France and a cast of soloists led by Nancy Gustafson in the role of Chawa, with Mikko Franck at the helm. It's followed by Hubert Parry's The Chivalry of the Sea, a naval ode written in 1916, which is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under David Lloyd-Jones.
Also, Schubert's Symphony No. 4, 'Tragic' in a recent performance given by the BBC Philharmonic, under its Principal Conductor, Juanjo Mena.

R. Stephan: Die Ersten Menschen, an opera in two acts
Chawa ..... Nancy Gustafon (soprano)
Adahm ..... Franz Hawlata (bass)
Chabel ..... Wolfgang Milgram (tenor)
Kajin ..... Donne Ray Albert (baritone)
Orchestre National de France
Mikko Franck, conductor

3.40pm
H. Parry: The Chivalry of the Sea
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

3.55pm
Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, 'Tragic'
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Music in the Great War

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Penny Gore introduces programmes featuring music connected with the First World War

Penny Gore introduces a series of programmes featuring music connected with the First World War

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