Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Brahms's Symphony No 2

Penny Gore - Afternoon Concert

Brahms's Symphony No 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Brahms's Symphony No 2

Brahms's Symphony No 2 and highlights from a carol concert given by the BBC Singers.

Penny Gore presents a performance of Brahms's Symphony No 2, performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Plus, highlights of a carol concert given by the BBC Singers.

Penny Gore presents Afternoon Concert, featuring new recordings from the BBC Performing Groups and the European Broadcasting Union. Today's 3 o'clock moment is a performance of Brahms's Symphony No 2, performed by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jaap van Zweden. Plus there are highlights of a carol concert given by the BBC Singers at Temple Church yesterday, presented by Ian Skelly.

Presented by Pennny Gore

2pm 
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor [1875-1912]/Sydney Baynes [1879-1938]
Christmas overture from ‘The forest of wild thyme’, Op.74
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

Bob Chilcott Welcome, all wonders in one sight!
Matthew Martin Angelus ad Virginem
Grace Rossiter O Sapientia (BBC Commission, world premiere)
Helen Neeves Minstrels 
James Whitbourn Hodie 
Oliver Tarney Balulalow 
BBC Singers
Ashley Grote (organ)
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Lyadov Kikimora - symphonic poem Op.63
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Vivaldi Concerto in G major RV.150 for string orchestra
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler (director)

c.3pm
Brahms Symphony no.2 in D major, Op.73
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Jaap van Zweden (conductor)

Adams, arr. Rutter O Holy Night 
Lucy Walker This Christmas Life 
Eoghan Desmond Verbum Caro Factum Est 
Walford Davies O Little Town of Bethlehem 
Bryan Kelly Tomorrow shall be my dancing day 
Thomas Hewitt Jones Camel Carol 
BBC Singers
Ashley Grote (organ)
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

c.4.15 
Dvorak Prague waltzes [Prazske valciky] B.99
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

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