Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Brahms's First Symphony from Prague

Tom McKinney - R3 Presenter

Brahms's First Symphony from Prague

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Brahms's First Symphony from Prague

Performance of Brahms's First Symphony and Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra in Prague.

Tom McKinney introduces concert performances of Brahms’s First Symphony and Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra from Prague, and music by Mozart and Coleridge-Taylor.

Tom McKinney ends the week with more concert performances from around Europe including Brahms’s Symphony No.1 & Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra from Prague, and music by Mozart, Ethel Smyth, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Francesco Cesarini. Plus there’ll be more from the Catalan ensemble Vespres d’Arnadi and the mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital.

John Williams – Olympic Fanfare and Theme (for the Los Angeles Games, 1984)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
John Williams (conductor)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Petite Suite de Concert
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

c. 2.20pm
Lutoslawski – Concerto for Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jakub Hrusa (conductor)

3pm
Brahms – Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.18
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Liebreich (conductor)

c. 3.45pm

Trad. Bulgarian arr. Avi Avital – Bucimis
Avi Avital (mandolin)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)

Franco Cesarini – Bulgarian Dances II, Op.43
Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band
José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana (conductor)

c. 4.10pm
Mozart – Symphony No.10 in G, K.74
Vespres d’Arnadi
Dani Espasa (conductor)

Presented by Tom McKinney

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