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Afternoon Concert: Friday - BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms Dubai

Friday - BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms Dubai

31/03/2017

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Friday - BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms Dubai

Music by Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Handel, Tawadros, Wood, Arne, Elgar and Weir.

Katie Derham presents performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, featuring music by Shostakovich, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Handel, Tawadros, Wood, Arne, Elgar and Weir.

Katie Derham ends a week of performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers at the BBC Proms Dubai

Petroc Trelawny joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers in the Dubai Opera House for a concert of music by Shostakovich, Debussy and Saint-Saëns recorded last week during the orchestra's visit to Dubai.

2.00pm
Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op.96
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

2.09pm
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.22 
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

2.32pm
Debussy: La Mer
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

2.55pm
Handel: Zadok the Priest
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.03pm
Joseph Tawadros (arranged by Jules Buckley): Eye of the Beholder; Permission to Evaporate; Constantinople
Joseph Tawadros (ud and percussion)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.20pm
Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.28pm
Arne (arr. Sargent): Rule, Britannia 
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

3.33pm
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D major;
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

4.00pm
Katie Derham continues the afternoon with more performances from the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Judith Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

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