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BBC SO in Elgar's Symphony No 2, plus the BBC CO in a folk-music inspired concert.

Penny Gore presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Elgar's Symphony No 2, plus the BBC Concert Orchestra in a folk-music inspired concert.

Penny Gore concludes her week of performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Elgar's Second Symphony performed in Utrecht during a recent tour to the Netherlands. Plus, in the lead up to Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, a folk-music inspired concert celebrating British music and beyond by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Recorded in Chichester in November, it includes works by Britten, Arthur Wood and Moeran, with guest artists Nancy Kerr - winner of the 2015 BBC Folk Singer of the Year - and her husband, James Fagan.

2pm
Gustav Holst (arr. Gordon Jacob)
A Hampshire Suite from Suite No. 2 for Military Band
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Ernest John Moeran
Lonely Waters
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Trad
Searching for the Lambs
Nancy Kerr (singer/fiddle)
James Fagan (guitar/bouzouki)

Trad
Banks of the Condamine
Nancy Kerr (singer/fiddle)
James Fagan (guitar/bouzouki)

Trad (arr. Paul Hart)
Lisbon
Nancy Kerr (singer/fiddle)
James Fagan (guitar/bouzouki)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

c. 2.30pm
Benjamin Britten
Suite on English folk tunes 'A time there was'
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Trad
Milkmaids
Nancy Kerr (singer/fiddle)

Thomas Pitfield
Overture on North-Country Tunes
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Arthur Wood
Suite, My Native Heath
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Trad
Brigg Fair
James Fagan (guitar/bouzouki)

Nancy Kerr
Fol the day
Nancy Kerr (singer/fiddle)

Nancy Kerr (arr. Paul Hart)
Sickle and Harvest
Nancy Kerr (singer/fiddle)
James Fagan (guitar/bouzouki)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Trad (arr. Nancy Kerr/Paul Hart)
Dance to Your Daddy/The Flaming Drones
Nancy Kerr (singer/fiddle)
James Fagan (guitar/bouzouki)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Followed by

c. 3.30pm
Edward Elgar
Symphony No. 2 in E flat major Op.63
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra

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