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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: Orchestras of the Southern Hemisphere

Afternoon Concert: Orchestras of the Southern Hemisphere: Episode 2

Episode 2

Orchestras of the Southern Hemisphere

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Orchestras of the Southern Hemisphere, Episode 2

Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Brahms and Elgar. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Mahler.

With Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing Brahms's Hungarian Dances and Elgar's Cello Concerto (with Truls Mork). Plus the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 2.

Verity Sharp continues our Southern Hemisphere season featuring orchestras from Australia and Brazil. Today, Mahler's mighty Resurrection symphony performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis, and the perennially popular Elgar Cello Concerto from Truls Mørk and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. 

Brahms arr Dvorák: Hungarian Dances
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrusa, conductor

c.2.15pm
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85
Truls Mørk, cello
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrusa, conductor

c.2.50pm
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor ('Resurrection')
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, mezzo-soprano
Erin Wall, soprano
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Orchestras of the Southern Hemisphere

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.

Verity Sharp presents music performed by orchestras from Australia and South America

Verity Sharp presents music performed by orchestras from Australia and South America, as part of a season devoted to the southern hemisphere

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