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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 National Orchestra of Wales in British Music

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Afternoon Concert: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in British Music: Episode 1: Welsh music

Episode 1

Episode 1: Welsh music

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in British Music

Welsh music

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in British Music, Welsh music

BBC NOW in Hoddinott, Matthias, Rawsthorne, Hilary Tann, Daniel Jones and Frank Bridge.

Music from the BBC NOW. Hoddinott: The Sun, the Great Luminary of the Universe. Mathias: Piano Concerto No 3. Plus works by Rawsthorne, Hilary Tann, Daniel Jones and Frank Bridge.

Penny Gore introduces a week of British Music with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales as part of Afternoon on 3's British Music Season. Includes a concert recorded in Cardiff last November with Nicola Heywood Thomas, as part of the Welsh Foundations Series, focusing on three major composers of the twentieth century - Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias and Daniel Jones. Nicola also talks to a Welsh composer who has left her native land to live and work in the USA - Hilary Tann. The final programme in the series is live this Friday from the home of the orchestra, BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff.

2pm
Alun Hoddinott: The Sun, the Great Luminary of the Universe, Op 76
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

2.20pm
William Mathias: Piano Concerto No 3, Op 40
Llŷr Williams (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

2.45pm
Alan Rawsthorne: Symphonic Studies
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Perry So (conductor)

3.10pm
Hilary Tann: The Grey Tide and the Green
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

3.25pm
Daniel Jones: Symphony (in memory of John Fussell)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tecwyn Evans (conductor)

4.05pm
Bridge: The Sea
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins.

Afternoon Concert: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales in British Music

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 introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing British music

Penny Gore introduces programmes of British music with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, as part of a British music season

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