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Afternoon on 3: BBC Philharmonic

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Afternoon Concert: BBC Philharmonic: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Philharmonic, Episode 4

The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Strauss, Stravinsky, Elgar and Beethoven.

Penny Gore with music from the BBC Philharmonic. Strauss: Serenade in E flat. Stravinsky: Firebird Suite. Elgar: Violin Concerto (soloist: James Ehnes). Beethoven: Symphony No 3.

Penny Gore presents the final programme in this week of performances by the BBC Philharmonic with a youthful wind serenade by Richard Strauss, Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, James Ehnes as soloist in Elgar's lyrical Violin Concerto, and the last of this week's Beethoven symphonies, his third, the 'Eroica', initially dedicated to Napoleon before Beethoven lost all respect for his former hero.

2pm
Strauss: Serenade in E flat, Op 7
BBC Philharmonic winds
John Storgards, conductor

2.10pm
Stravinsky: The Firebird, Suite (1945)
BBC Philharmonic
Dmitri Jurowski, conductor 

2.40pm
Elgar: Violin Concerto
James Ehnes, violin
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis, conductor

3.30pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
BBC Philharmonic
Paul Daniel, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Philharmonic

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