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Afternoon Concert: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children: Episode 9

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Episode 9

Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ten Pieces to Inspire Children, Episode 9

Penny Gore features Anna Meredith's Connect It, for Ten Pieces. Plus Verdi's La Traviata.

Penny Gore features Anna Meredith's new work Connect It as part of BBC Music's Ten Pieces project. Plus Thursday Opera Matinee: Verdi's La Traviata.

Penny Gore with our Opera Matinee: Verdi's La Traviata from La Scala, Milan, with Diana Damrau as Violetta; and Ten Pieces, music to inspire and engage primary school children. Today: Anna Meredith's Connect It, performed by Drum Works.

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

Next, in our Opera Matinee, one of the most famous stories in all opera: Verdi's La Traviata, the tragic tale of love, betrayal and selfless sacrifice set in Paris and based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, La dame aux camelias. It features mega-star soprano Diana Damrau in the title role, as the courtesan Violetta, the Fallen Woman, who renounces love to save her beloved Alfredo, a well-to do gentleman, performed by tenor Piotr Beczala. Daniele Gatti conducts La Scala Chorus and Orchestra in this recording taken live in Milan in December last year.

2pm
Ten Pieces - Anna Meredith: Connect It
Drum Works

2.05pm
Verdi - La Traviata

Violetta Valery - Diana Damrau (soprano)
Alfredo Germont - Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Giorgio Germont - Zeljko Lucic (baritone)
Flora Bervoix - Giuseppina Piunti (mezzo-soprano)
Annina - Mara Zampieri (soprano)
Gastone - Antonio Cariano (tenor)
Barone Douphol - Roberto Accurso (baritone)
Marchese d'Obigny - Andrea Porta (bass)
Dottore Grenvil - Andrea Mastroni (bass)
Giuseppe - Nicola Pamio (tenor)
Flora's servant - Ernesto Petti (bass)
Commissioner - Ernesto Panariello (bass)

La Scala Chorus and Orchestra
Daniele Gatti (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

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.

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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