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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: The BBC Philharmonic Performs British Music

BBC Philharmonic

Afternoon Concert: The BBC Philharmonic Performs British Music: Episode 4: BBC Philharmonic Live from MediaCityUK in Salford

Episode 4

Episode 4: BBC Philharmonic Live from MediaCityUK in Salford

The BBC Philharmonic Performs British Music

BBC Philharmonic Live from MediaCityUK in Salford

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Live from Salford, BBC Philharmonic plays Knussen, Elgar, Anthony Payne, Finzi and Britten

Live from Salford, the BBC Philharmonic performs music by Knussen, Elgar, Anthony Payne, Finzi and Britten. Plus works by Gurney, Stanford and David Matthews.

Afternoon on 3 with Catriona Young.

2pm LIVE
Tom Redmond presents a live afternoon concert from the BBC Philharmonic as part of Afternoon on 3's British music season. Works by Oliver Knussen and Anthony Payne sit alongside Elgar's playful Nursery Suite, taken from sketches from his childhood, and Britten's powerful Sinfonia da Requiem

Oliver Knussen: The Way to Castle Yonder
Elgar: Nursery Suite
Anthony Payne: Half-Heard in the Stillness
Finzi: Farewell to Arms*
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Robin Tritschler (tenor) *
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

c.3.10pm
Catriona Young concludes the BBC Philharmonic's week of music by British composers with works by Ivor Gurney, David Matthews and Stanford's Clarinet Concerto.

Gurney: A Gloucestershire Rhapsody
BBC Philharmonic
Michael Seal (conductor)

Stanford: Clarinet Concerto
John Bradbury (clarinet)
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson (conductor)

David Matthews: Toward Sunrise
BBC Philharmonic
Jac van Steen (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: The BBC Philharmonic Performs British Music

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Catriona Young presents the BBC Philharmonic performing music from the British Isles

Catriona Young presents a series of programmes featuring the BBC Philharmonic performing music from the British Isles

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