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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 Concert Orchestra

BBC Concert Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Concert Orchestra: Episode 1: BBC Concert Orchestra on Tour in the USA

Episode 1

Episode 1: BBC Concert Orchestra on Tour in the USA

BBC Concert Orchestra on Tour in the USA

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra on Tour in the USA

The BBC Concert Orchestra performs Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, Dvorak and Cyril Scott.

Penny Gore with music from the BBC Concert Orchestra. Vaughan Williams: Overture: The Wasps. Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad. Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No 2. Dvorak: Symphony No 8.

This week featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra. Penny Gore presents the first of two concerts from their recent American tour, with pianist Charlie Albright and Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart, which ends with Dvorak's sunny Symphony No 8, written as he was elected to the prestigious Bohemian Academy of Science, Literature and Arts.

2pm
Vaughan Williams Overture 'The Wasps'
Butterworth Shropshire Lad

c.2.25pm
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2 in F major Op.102

c.2.50pm
Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G major, Op.88
Charlie Albright (piano )
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor

Cyril Scott Cello Concerto, Op 19
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Martin Yates (conductor)

c.3.55pm
Henry Kimball Hadley San Francisco Suite
BBC Concert Orchestra
Rebecca Miller (conductor)

John Alden Carpenter Carmel Concerto
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Concert Orchestra

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.

Penny Gore presents programmes featuring music performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring music performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra

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