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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 Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, Episode 2

The BBC SO performs Mozart, Coles and Dvorak. BBC Singers in Tavener, Tomkins and Gibbons.

Penny Gore with music from the BBC SO and Singers. Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4. Coles: Cortege. Tavener: Hymn to the Mother of God. Plus Gibbons, Vaughan Williams and Dvorak.

Penny Gore continues a week of recent recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, today with a strong British flavour. Two short works by the Scottish composer Cecil Coles bookend a concert that includes music by Tavener, Stanford and Tomkins which is given by the BBC Singers. Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams' single-movement work 'A Road all Paved with Stars', incorporating the finest music from his opera 'The Poisoned Kiss'. Plus Mozart's 4th Violin Concerto performed by the young German violinist Augustin Hadelich, and the programme ends with Dvorak's 7th Symphony.

Penny Gore (presenter)

14:00
MOZART
Concerto No.4 in D major, K218
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

14:35
COLES
Cortege
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

14:45
BBC Singers in Concert
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Music includes:

WILLIAM HARRIS Faire is the heaven; Bring us, O Lord
GIBBONS O clap your hands
TOMKINS O praise the Lord all ye heathen - anthem for 12 voices and organ
TAVENER Two Hymns to the Mother of God

BBC Singers
Andrew Carwood (director)


15:20
COLES
Sorrowful Dance
BBC SO
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

15:25
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, ARR. ADRIAN WILLIAMS
A Road All Paved with Stars
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

15:45
DVORÀK
Symphony No.7 in D minor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jaime Martin (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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Penny Gore presents recent recordings made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring recent recordings made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

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