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Afternoon on 3: Sound Frontiers: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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Afternoon Concert: Sound Frontiers: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Sound Frontiers: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Sound Frontiers: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 1

Katie Derham with music from Vaughan Williams, Matthews, Pritchard, Matthias and Debussy.

Katie Derham with music from the BBC NOW, including Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending and Matthews: No Man's Land. Plus Pritchard, Matthias, Debussy, Gareth Glyn and Sibelius.

As part of Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre in London, Katie Derham introduces a week of concerts featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, opening with festival performances from Lichfield and St. Asaph. Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending evokes the pastoral idyll of a world on the brink of the Great War, and Colin Mathews's No Man's Land explores the stark reality of life on the Front, in a concert commemorating the Battle of the Somme. Plus a new work from Lichfield Festival composer in residence Deborah Pritchard, for whom colour and composition are inextricably linked.

Light is at the centre of the concert given at last year's North Wales International Music Festival. William Mathias depicts the Greek sun god with raw power tinged with mystic rhythms and harmonies. A dramatic new commission from Welsh composer Gareth Glyn takes as his subject the Japanese Shinto goddess of the sun, Amaterasu, and Hannah Stone, former harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales, shines as soloist in two Debussy dances. 

2pm
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Colin Matthews: No Man's Land
Deborah Pritchard: The Angel Standing in the Sun
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
Chloe Hanslip (violin)
Robin Tritschler (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martin Brabbins (Conductor)

c.3.30pm 
Mathias: Helios
Debussy: Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane
Gareth Glyn: Amaterasu
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Hannah Stone (harp)
Donal Bannister (trombone)
Baiba Skride (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Otto Tausk (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Sound Frontiers: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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Katie Derham presents concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

From a pop-up studio in Southbank Centre in London, Katie Derham presents a series of programmes featuring concerts given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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