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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

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra: Episode 1

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Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Episode 1

With music by Anthony Ritchie, Vaughan Williams, Bruch, Howells, Glanert and Musgrave.

Anthony Ritchie: A Bugle Will Do. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis. Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1. Howells: Hymnus Paradisi. Plus works by Glanert and Musgrave.

Penny Gore introduces a week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Today a concert recorded in Rotterdam including Howells' Hymnus Paradisi, and we celebrate Burns Night. The week anticipates Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, including on Friday, a concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra featuring BBC Radio 2's 2015 Folk Singer of the Year, Nancy Kerr.

2pm
Anthony Ritchie
A Bugle Will Do
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pascal Rophé (conductor)

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c. 2.30pm
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor
Ray Chen (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c. 3pm
Herbert Howells
Hymnus Paradisi
Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano)
Andrew Staples (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Rotterdam Symphony Chorus
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

c. 3.50pm
Detlev Glanert
Brahms-Fantasie 'Heliogravure'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

c.4.05pm
Thea Musgrave
Songs for a Winter's Evening
Lisa Milne (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra

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 a series of programmes featuring music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra

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