Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

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 National Orchestra of Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 3

BBC NOW in Mackenzie, Britten, Honegger, Ginastera, Gershwin, Adams, Harris and Bernstein.

The BBC NOW in Alexander Mackenzie: Britannia. Britten: An American Overture. Honegger: Pacific 231. Ginastera: Harp Concerto. Plus Gershwin, John Adams, Roy Harris and Bernstein.

Verity Sharp embarks upon a week of programmes on a voyage with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with a nautical overture, mixing "Rule Britannia" with a jaunty horpipe. Britten landed in America at the outbreak of the Second World War and captured the spirit of the wide open plains and of jazz in his overture. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales landed in America in 2007 with Thierry Fischer, playing Honegger's impression of a steam locomotive that would have been commonplace on the American railroads in the early twentieth century. Late last year the orchestra visited South America, playing Ginastera's harp concerto in Buenos Aires in the presence of the composer's daughter. American conductor Eric Stern brings his broadway bravura to the orchestra in favourites by Gershwin and Bernstein, plus the seminal all-American Third Symphony by Roy Harris. Soloist Chloe Hanslip braves the challenges of the electric violin for John Adams's haunting impression of the towering mountains that crash into the Pacific Ocean in California.

2pm
Alexander Mackenzie: Britannia - a nautical overture op.52
BBC National Orhcestra of Wales
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

2.10pm
Britten: An American Overture
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

2.20pm
Honegger: Pacific 231
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

2.25pm
Ginastera: Harp Concerto
Catrin Finch (harp)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

2.50pm
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
William Wolfram (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)

3.10pm
John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur
Chloe Hanslip (electric violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)

3.40pm
Roy Harris: Symphony no. 3
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor)

4pm
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Eric Stern (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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 performances given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Afternoon Concert

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Episode 3

Contributors

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3