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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: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Episode 3

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Episode 3

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Brahms, Reger, Jackson, Schoenberg and Ligeti.

Katie Derham features the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Brahms: Tragic Overture. Reger: Requiem. Jackson: The Armed Man. Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden. Ligeti: Violin Concerto.

Katie Derham presents, as part of a week of concerts from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brahms's Tragic Overture and Reger's Requiem after Hebbel, with baritone Michael Volle. Also today, the Bavarian Radio Chorus directed by Howard Arman in Gabriel Jackson's The Armed Man and Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth) by Schoenberg. The afternoon ends with the BRSO performing Ligeti's Violin Concerto with soloist Ilya Gringolts, conducted by Karl-Heinz Steffens.

2.pm:
Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op 81
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor

2.15pm
Reger: Requiem, Op 144b
Michael Volle, baritone
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor

2.30pm
Gabriel Jackson: The Armed Man
Bavarian Radio Chorus 
Howard Arman, director

2.40pm 
Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, Op 13
Bavarian Radio Chorus 
Howard Arman, director

2.50pm
Ligeti: Violin Concerto
Ilya Gringolts, violin
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Peter Rundel, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Katie Derham presents concerts given by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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