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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: Sound Frontiers: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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Afternoon Concert: Sound Frontiers: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Episode 4

Episode 4

Sound Frontiers: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Sound Frontiers: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Episode 4

Live from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, a concert featuring the BBC Singers.

Live from St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, the BBC Singers perform Xenakis, Messiaen, Mendelssohn, Saariaho and Rehnqvist. Plus BBC NOW in works by Bach, John Lunn and Mahler.

A live concert from the BBC Singers at St. Paul's Knightsbridge with a varied programme including Xenakis, Saariaho and Mendelssohn. Then Katie Derham concludes her week in the company of BBC NOW with Mahler's mighty First Symphony under Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard, a performance which brought last season to a thrilling climax. Plus highlights from a concert in Cheltenham Town Hall with baroque violinist Rachel Podger and a new Radio 3 commission for Nadine Koutcher, reigning BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, from composer John Lunn, best known for his soundtracks to TV programmes including Downton Abbey.

2pm live from St Paul's Knightsbridge
Xenakis: Nuits
Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium
Felix Mendelssohn: Three Psalms Op 78.
Kaija Saariaho: Nuits adieux
Karin Rehnqvist: I himmelen 
BBC Singers
Grete Pedersen (conductor)

c.3.40 From London's Southbank
J.S. Bach: Concerto in D minor, BWV.1043, for 2 violins and string orchestra
Lesley Hatfield (violin)
Rachel Podger (violin / director)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

c.3.55
John Lunn: Vilette [BBC commission, world premiere]
Nadine Koutcher (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

c.4.05
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Sound Frontiers: The 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.

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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