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Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon on 3: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Episode 4

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Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 4

With Katie Derham. The BBC SSO in Rameau, Adams, Rebel, Beethoven, Grieg and Berlioz.

Music from BBC SSO. Rameau: Les Indes galantes Suite. Adams: Absolute Jest. Rebel: Chaos (Les elemens). Beethoven: Symphony No 2. Grieg: En Svane. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.

Katie Derham presents a concert given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Perth Concert Hall last November. The Doric String Quartet joins the orchestra for a concert that pairs Beethoven's Symphony no.2 with Beethoven-inspired John Adams, and two riotously inventive French Baroque showpieces. Plus lyrical songs by Grieg performed by Malin Christensson and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique conducted by Donald Runnicles at Glasgow's City Halls.

2pm
Rameau Les Indes galantes - suite of orchestral numbers [from the opera-ballet]
Adams Absolute jest for string quartet and orchestra
Rebel Les Elemens: Chaos

c.2.45pm
Beethoven Symphony no. 2 in D major Op.36
Doric String Quartet
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Markus Stenz (conductor)

c.3.20pm
Grieg En Svane, Op.25'2
Varen [Spring] Op.33'2
Malin Christensson (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rory Macdonald (conductor)

c.3.30pm
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Katie Derham presents performances given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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