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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 Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, Episode 4

Music by Foulds, Sibelius, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Philips, Beamish, Stanford, Saint-Saens.

Featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Foulds: April - England. Sibelius: Violin Concerto. Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No 5. Plus the BBC Singers in Philips, Beamish and Stanford.

Penny Gore concludes a week of recent recordings made by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The outstanding young Ukrainian violinist Valeriy Sokolov joins the orchestra with conductor Edward Gardner to perform Sibelius's Violin Concerto, and current BBC New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel performs Saint-Saëns's 5th Piano Concerto conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Plus Mirror II by the Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert of British choral music given by the BBC Singers.

Penny Gore (presenter)

14:00
FOULDS
April - England
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

14:10
SIBELIUS
Violin Concerto Op.47
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Valeriy Sokolov (violin)
Edward Gardner (conductor)

14:45
Pelle GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN
Mirror II
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

15:15
BBC Singers in Concert
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Music includes:

Sally BEAMISH: Shadow and silver
PHILIPS: Ave Jesu Christe for 8 voices [1613a]
STANFORD: Magnificat in B flat

15:55
SAINT-SAENS
Piano Concerto No.5 in F Op.103 (Egyptian)
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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 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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