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Afternoon Concert: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children: Episode 8: Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain

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Episode 8: Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain

Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ten Pieces to Inspire Children, Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain

Penny Gore features Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain. Plus Scriabin, Brahms, Walton

Penny Gore features Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain for BBC Music's Ten Pieces. Plus Scriabin: Piano Concerto. Brahms: Symphony No 3. Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue.

Penny Gore presents Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain, part of Ten Pieces, chosen to inspire and engage primary school children. The performance is taken from a concert given last month by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, our featured orchestra this week, with its Chief Conductor, Donald Runnicles.

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

It's followed by Scriabin's Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, with soloist Barry Douglas, taken from the same concert.

Also, Radio 3's Brahms Experience and his Symphony No. 3, with Matthias Pintscher conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance recorded in 2012. And closing the afternoon, William Walton's Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, conducted this time by Martyn Brabbins.

2pm 
Ten Pieces - Mussorgsky: Night on The Bare Mountain

2.15pm
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op. 20
Barry Douglas (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

2.40pm
Brahms Experience: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
BBC Scottish Symphony
Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

3.20pm
Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue for orchestra (concert version)
BBC Scottish Symphony
Martyn Brabbins (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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