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Afternoon Concert: BBC Philharmonic

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BBC Philharmonic

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Philharmonic

Tom McKinney presents the BBC Philharmonic performing Saint-Saens, Musgrave and Elgar

The BBC Philharmonic performs Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2, the UK premiere of Musgrave's Songs for Spring and Elgar's epic First Symphony. Presented by Tom McKinney.

Birds on the wing open today's Afternoon Concert, with the BBC Philharmonic and presenter Tom McKinney - works by Respighi, Sibelius and Rautavaara, and two UK premieres with Andrea Tarrodi's Birds of Paradise II and Minna Leinonen's Kaarne (The Raven).  There's also the second of this week's Saint-Saens piano concertos with soloist Louis Lortie, and visits to Italy with Berlioz and Foulds,  Then, the orchestra also give the UK premiere of Thea Musgrave's Songs for Spring with baritone Ashley Riches and conductor Clarke Rundell, and the afternoon closes with Elgar's epic First Symphony, premiered in Manchester in 1908 and which conductor Arthur Nikisch dubbed “the Fifth of Brahms”. 


2pm
Respighi Suite: The Birds     
Andrea Tarrodi: Birds of Paradise II (ukp) 
Sibelius: Scene with cranes 
Minna Leinonen: Kaarne (The Raven)(ukp)                     
Rautavaara: Cantus arcticus
BBC Philharmonic 
Anna- Maria Helsing (conductor)

c.3pm
Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 2 
BBC Philharmonic 
Edward Gardner (conductor)
Louis Lortie (piano)

c. 3.25pm
Berlioz Overture, Roman Carnival                              
BBC Philharmonic 
Andrew Litton (conductor)

c. 3.35pm
Foulds Sicilian Aubade   
BBC Philharmonic 
Ben Gernon (conductor)

c.3,40pm
Thea Musgrave Songs for Spring (ukp)                     
BBC Philharmonic 
Clark Rundell (conductor)
Ashley Riches (baritone)  

c.3.55pm
Elgar Symphony No 1 
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena (conductor)

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