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Afternoon Concert: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children: Episode 6: Holst's The Planets

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Episode 6: Holst's The Planets

Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

Holst's The Planets

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ten Pieces to Inspire Children, Holst's The Planets

Penny Gore features Holst's The Planets. Plus Colin Matthews, Britten, Berg and Brahms.

Penny Gore features Holst's The Planets as part of Radio 3's Ten Pieces. Plus Colin Matthews: Pluto. Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem. Berg: Seven Early Songs. Brahms: Symphony No 2.

Penny Gore presents music from Ten Pieces, our selection of music to engage and inspire primary school children. This week features pieces by Mozart, his Horn Concerto No. 4 - that's on Tuesday; on Wednesday, Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain; on Thursday, Anna Meredith's Connect It; and on Friday, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. Opening the week today is Holst's Suite The Planets, including Collin Matthews' Pluto, for women's voices and orchestra, taken from a concert given in August by conductor Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - our main ensemble for the week. Also from that concert, Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem and Berg's 7 Early Songs, arranged for voice and orchestra, with soprano Michaela Kaune.

For more about Ten pieces visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vs08w

This is followed, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience, by the German composer's Symphony No. 2, again with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under its Chief Conductor, Donald Runnicles.

2pm
Ten Pieces - Holst: The Planets - Suite, Op. 32 (including Collin Matthews' Pluto, for women voices and orchestra)

2.55pm
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20

3.15pm
Berg: 7 Early Songs, arr. for voice and orchestra
Michaela Kaune (soprano)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

3.35pm
Brahms Experience: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

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Series featuring complete performances of works in Radio 3's Ten Pieces project

Series featuring complete performances of works in Radio 3's Ten Pieces project, which aims to inspire a generation of children in primary schools to engage with ten different classical pieces

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