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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

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Afternoon on 3: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 1

Verity Sharp presents the BBC NOW performing Finzi, Elgar, Stanford, Mendelssohn and Holst

Verity Sharp presents music performed by the BBC NOW. Finzi: Clarinet Concerto. Elgar: Sea Pictures. Stanford: Irish Rhapsody. Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture. Holst: The Planets.

Verity Sharp begins a week featuring performances by BBC National Orchestra of Wales, today focusing on British music including Finzi's Clarinet Concerto and Holst's The Planets.

As Cardiff Singer of the World gets under way, Afternoon on 3 celebrates one of the competition's house orchestras, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, in music from all corners of Britain and Ireland. Finzi's Clarinet Concerto, performed here by BBC NOW Principal Clarinet Robert Plane, is the English composer's most widely performed and recorded work. Elgar's Sea Pictures and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture evoke the waters around the British Isles, while Stanford's Rhapsody is inspired by Ireland. The programme ends with Holst's The Planets, now such a concert-hall fixture that it's easy to forget that its musical language once seemed startlingly modern.

2pm
Finzi: Clarinet Concerto
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Robert Plane (clarinet)
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

2.40pm
Elgar: Sea Pictures
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor)

3.05pm
Stanford: Irish Rhapsody
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Francesco Angelico (conductor)

3.20pm
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

3.35pm
Holst: The Planets
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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

Verity Sharp presents a series of programmes featuring performances given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. With music from Britain and Ireland

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