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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: BBC Performing Groups Live

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Live: Episode 1: BBC Concert Orchestra

BBC Concert Orchestra

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Episode 1: BBC Concert Orchestra

BBC Performing Groups Live

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The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music by Holmboe, Dudley, Nielsen, Sibelius and Berwald

A live concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Holmboe: Symphony No 13. Dudley: Northern Lights. Nielsen: Saul and David (excerpt). Plus Sibelius, Berwald, McCabe and Grieg.

We have no fewer than six live concerts in Afternoon on 3 this week, starting today with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes live from Watford Colosseum. Their programme picks up on Afternoon on 3's Nordic and Baltic season, featuring music by Nielsen and Sibelius alongside a symphony by the Danish composer Vagn Holmboe which was written for today's conductor Owain Arwel Hughes, and Anne Dudley's Northern Lights which was written for the BBC Concert Orchestra when she was Composer in Residence.
Presented by Penny Gore. 
After the live concert we're back to Broadcasting House where Verity Sharp presents recent recordings by the BBC Philharmonic of music by Grieg and John McCabe, in his 75th year.

2pm
Vagn Holmboe: Symphony no.13

2.20pm
Anne Dudley: Northern Lights

2.40pm
Nielsen: Saul and David - Prelude to Act 2

3.05pm
Sibelius: Serenade No 2 in G minor
Charles Mutter (violin)

3.15pm
Berwald: Symphony no.3

BBC Concert Orchestra
Owain Arwel Hughes, conductor


3.45pm
McCabe Fire at Durilgai
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgards, conductor

4pm
Grieg: 2 Elegiac melodies Op.34 for string orchestra 
BBC Philharmonic
Michael Seal, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Performing Groups Live

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