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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 Concert Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Concert Orchestra: Episode 3

Episode 3

BBC Concert Orchestra

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

The BBC Concert Orchestra in music from Martin Yates and Cecil Armstrong Gibbs.

Penny Gore presents music from the BBC Concert Orchestra. Vaughan Williams real Yates: Fat Knight. Gibbs: Dusk; The Enchanted Wood (with Charles Mutter: violin, Ben Dawson: piano).

Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a world premiere performance of his own orchestral suite called Fat Knight, based on music from Vaughan Williams's opera Sir John in Love. Recorded at the 10th English Music Festival in the Abbey at Dorchester-on-Thames. Plus music from a new BBC Concert Orchestra CD featuring the neglected English composer Cecil Armstrong Gibbs. Presented by Penny Gore.

2pm 
Vaughan Williams, realised Martin Yates: Fat Knight
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates

2.55pm
Gibbs: Dusk; The Enchanted Wood, Op 25
Charles Mutter (violin), Ben Dawson (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ronald Corp.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Concert 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 music performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring music performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra

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