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Afternoon Concert

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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: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Ten Pieces to Inspire Children: Episode 10

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Episode 10

Ten Pieces to Inspire Children

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Ten Pieces to Inspire Children, Episode 10

Penny Gore features Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. Plus Schumann, Mozart, Brahms and Bruch.

Penny Gore features Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (1945) as part of BBC Music's Ten Pieces project. Plus Schumann's Overture, scherzo and finale, Op 52, and Mozart, Brahms and Bruch.

Penny Gore presents Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (1945 vers), part of our Ten Pieces, music to inspire and engage primary school children, performed by the National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Thierry Fischer.

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

Next, a return to our featured orchestra of the week, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and a concert given last year under conductor Ilan Volkov. First comes Schumann's Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52; followed by Mozart's Concerto for violin No. 4, with soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja; then, continuing with Radio 3's Brahms Experience, the composer's Symphony No. 4.
Also, Nicola Benedetti performing Bruch's Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Donald Runnicles, its Chief Conductor.

2pm
Ten Pieces - Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945 vers)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

2.30pm
Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K.218

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)

3.55pm
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, Op. 46
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory McDonald (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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