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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

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Singers

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

With music by Barber Mozart, Chilcott, Kodaly, Vintner, Toch, Wolpe, Weber and Schubert.

Penny Gore with music from the BBC SO and Singers, including Barber's Symphony No 1 and Mozart's Horn Concerto No 3. Plus Chilcott, Kodaly, Vintner, Toch, Wolpe, Weber and Schubert.

Penny Gore rounds off this week's Afternoon on 3 featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers. Today features Barber's First Symphony and Mozart's Horn Concerto No 3. And includes choral works by Bob Chilcott, Ernst Toch and Stefan Wolpe.

2pm
Bob Chilcott
Five Days that Changed the World
BBC Singers
Finchley Children's Music Group
Gemma Beeson (piano)
Markus Gruett (timpani)
David Hill (conductor)

2.20pm
Kodaly
Dances of Marosszek
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)

2.30pm
Vintner
Hunter's Moon
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)

2.40pm
Mozart
Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat major
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Seal (conductor)

3.00pm
Toch
Gesprochene Musik
BBC Singers
Philip Headlam (conductor)

3.10pm
Stefan Wolpe
Zwei Chinesische Grabschriften
The Continuum Ensemble
BBC Singers
Philip Headlam (conductor)

3.15pm
Weber
Der Beherrscher der Geister
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate (conductor)

3.25pm
Schubert (arr.Rasmussen)
Der Taucher (UK Premiere)
Benjamin Appl (Baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate (conductor)

4.50pm
Barber
Symphony No. 1
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate (conductor)

4.10pm
Bob Chilcott 
The Miracle of The Spring
Olivia Robinson (soprano)
Eleanor Minney (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Singers
Nigel Charman and Markus Gruett (percussion)
David Hill (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers

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Performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Penny Gore introduces a series of programmes featuring performances given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

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