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Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon on 3: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Episode 4: BBC Music Day: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Episode 4: BBC Music Day: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Music Day: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Music Day: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

With the BBC Singers performing live and music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

With the BBC Singers in a live concert to celebrate BBC Music Day. Plus music from BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Panufnik: Symphony No 3. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2.

Penny Gore presents a day of music to celebrate BBC Music Day. Katie Derham introduces the BBC Singers in a live concert at 3.30 from the cheese-making Ford Farm in Dorchester, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the BBC Home Service's Workers' Playtime. 
With ensembles performing on bridges up and down the country, the programme also includes the Severn Bridge Variations, written by six composers to celebrate the bridge being built in 1966. And there are performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Panufnik, and pianist Denis Kozhukhin stars in Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto recorded in Shanghai during the orchestra's tour of China last year. 

2pm
Panufnik - Sinfonia sacra (Symphony No.3)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Lukasz Borowicz (conductor)

c.2:20
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor Op.18 for piano and orchestra
Denis Kozhukhin (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)


Introduced by Katie Derham, a live performance given by the BBC Singers from Ford Farm in Dorchester.
3:30


Introduced by Penny Gore
c.4:10
Arnold/Hoddinott/Maw/Jones/Williams/Tippett: Severn Bridge Variations
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jac Van Steen (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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