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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

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Afternoon on 3: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 3

With Verity Sharp. The BBC NOW in music by Wagner, Mathias, Gareth Glyn and Mendelssohn.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Wagner: Siegfried Idyll. Mathias: Flute Concerto. Gareth Glyn: Gododdin. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts).

Verity Sharp presents a recent concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at St Asaph Cathedral, part of the North Wales International Music Festival. Music by Wagner, Mathias, Gareth Glyn and Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn loved the British Isles and adored Shakespeare, writing the overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream when he was only 17 and somehow recapturing that youthful spirit when he added to it a sequence of incidental music nearly two decades later. The programme begins with Wagner's birthday present to his wife Cosima, the Siegfried Idyll, before works by two major Welsh composers. BBC NOW's principal flute Matthew Featherstone plays William Mathias's late Flute Concerto, and the orchestra gives the premiere of Gareth Glyn's Gododdin, which takes its inspiration from the 13th-century Book of Aneirin.

2pm
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

2.20pm
Mathias: Flute Concerto
Matthew Featherstone (flute)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

2.40pm
Gareth Glyn: Gododdin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

2.55pm
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - excerpts
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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.

Verity Sharp presents concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Verity Sharp presents a series of programmes featuring concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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