Live Music From The BBC's Orchestras And Singers [Afternoon Concert]

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20121203

Penny Gore hosts a week of programmes featuring a LIVE concert at 2pm every day.

Today it's the BBC Philharmonic live from their homat MediaCity in Salford. Juanjo Mena conducts music by Walton, Britten and Tchaikovsky - music from his ever-popular ballet The Nutcracker.

And following that, hot off the press from a concert given on Saturday by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek conducts Mahler's 2nd Symphony - The Resurrection, with soloists Chen Reiss and Katarina Karneus, and the Guildhall Symphony Chorus.

Live from Salford

Walton: Overture Scapino

Britten: Quatre Chansons Francaises

with Robin Tritschler (tenor)

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (highlights)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

2.55pm

Symphony No.2 in C minor Resurrection

Chen Reiss (soprano)

Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano)

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Afternoon on 3 is live every day this week at 2pm.

Every programme features British music, as part of Afternoon on 3's continuing focus on home-grown music and artists.

Today it's the turn of the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Junjo Mena.

Tomorrow the BBC Singers bring us Music for Advent from Tonbridge School Chapel, with music from Palestrina through Arnold Bax to Nico Muhly.

On Wednesday live at 2pm, the BBC Concert Orchestra with conductor Barry Wordsworth play music by Holst and Vaughan Williams, plus the world premiere of Jonathan Dove's portrait piece for Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi - suggested to the composer by Radio 3 listeners during R3's highly succesful Portraits Day in May this year.

On Thursday live at 2pm, a concert with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins from the City Halls, Glasgow - including the UK premiere of Paul Hindemith's piano concerto for the left hand - written in 1923 for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in the First World War - although it was never performed by him. Olli Mustonen is the soloist in that and in Bartok's final work - his 3rd Piano Concerto, with its beautiful slow movement.

On Friday live at 2pm, Garry Walker conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, in a concert of Christmas music by Samuel Barber, Gerald Finzi and Leroy Anderson. The soloists are harpist Catrin Finch and soprano Elin Manahan Thomas - who also guide us through proceedings.

The BBC Philharmonic in Salford perform music by Walton, Britten and Tchaikovsky.

20121204

Penny Gore presents.

We begin with choral music for Advent, from the BBC Singers, conducted by David Hill, Live from Tonbridge school, with music from Palestrina and Bach via Arnold Bax and Herbert Howells to Bob Chilcott, Nico Muhly and John Tavener.

After 3pm there's a performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's concert last Saturday at the Barbican Centre in London, with young soloist Francesco Piemontesi. Jiri Belohlavek conducts. Our British theme continues with another concerto - for flute, by Jonathan Dove. And the BBC Singers return with new choral music by Gordon Crosse, who celebrated his 75th birthday at the weekend.

2pm

Advent music by Palestrina, Bach, Arnold Bax, Herbert Howells, Bob Chilcott, Cecilia McDowall, Nico Muhly and John Tavener.

James McVinnie (organ),

David Hill (conductor)

3.15pm

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Francesco Piemontesi (piano),

BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

3.45pm

Jonathan Dove: The Magic Flute Dances

Emily Beynon (flute),

BBC National Orchestra of Wales,

Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

Gordon Crosse: Sabbath Rest

Gavin Roberts (organ)

Paul Brough (conductor).

The BBC Singers perform advent music by Palestrina, Bach, Bax and others.

20121205

Presented by Penny Gore.

Live at 2pm we join the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth at Cadogan Hall in London for a concert of British music, as part of Afternoon on 3's continuing focus of homegrown music and performers. The concert begins with Holst - his ballet music from the opera The Perfect Fool - and ends with the Fifth Symphony by Holst's close friend Vaughan Williams, written in the darkest days of the Second World War and premiered in 1943.

Between these, the BBC Concert Orchestra give the world premiere performance of a piece by Jonathan Dove - Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese opposition politician. On Radio 3's highly successful Portrait Day in May this year, listeners were asked to suggest an individual for Jonathan Dove to compose a portrait of. This is the first chance to hear what Dove has come up with......

Holst: The Perfect Fool (ballet music)

Jonathan Dove: Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D

Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

3.20pm

Malcolm Arnold: Larch Trees

BBC Philharmonic

Richard Davis (conductor).

The BBC Concert Orchestra perform pieces by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Jonathan Dove.

20121206

Penny Gore presents.

Live at 2pm - The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins perform music by Bartok and Hindemith, including Bartok's 3rd Piano Concerto - his last completed work - written not as a commission by a starry soloist or big arts organisation, but as a final gift for his wife, filled with a lifetime's worth of a shared love of folk-inspired music.

The programme also includes the first UK performance of a piece by Paul Hindemith - his Piano Concerto for the left hand. Hindemith wrote the concerto for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in the First World War, but Wittgenstein never played it and the world premiere took place in Berlin as recently as 2004, long after both dedicatee and composer were dead.

2pm (Live)

Bartok: Dance Suite

Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3

Olli Mustonen (piano),

BBC Scottish Symphomy Orchestra,

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

2.45 Interval

Ivor Gurney: A Gloucestershire Rhapsody

David Perry (conductor)

3.10 (Live)

Hindemith: Piano Concerto for the left hand, Op. 29

Hindemith: Symphony Mathis der Maler

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Bartok and Hindemith.

20121207

With Penny Gore.

Live at 2pm: Afternoon on 3's week of live concerts by the BBC's orchestras and BBC Singers ends with a seasonal concert from Cardiff. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales are joined at their home base, BBC Hoddinott Hall, by conductor Garry Walker, and by harpist Catrin Finch and soprano Elin Manahan Thomas - who also guide us through works by Samuel Barber, Gabriel Pierne, Daniel Jones, Gerald Finzi and Leroy Anderson.

Barber: Die Natali

Pierne: Concert Piece for harp and orchestra

Daniel Jones: Five Pieces for Orchestra

Finzi: Dies Natalis

Leroy Anderson: Christmas Festival

Catrin Finch (harp),

Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano),

BBC National Orchestra of Wales,

Garry Walker.

Music by Barber, Pierne, Jones, Finzi and Anderson from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff.

Episodes

Episode	First Broadcast	Comments
01	20121203	Penny Gore hosts a week of programmes featuring a LIVE concert at 2pm every day. Today it's the BBC Philharmonic live from their homat MediaCity in Salford. Juanjo Mena conducts music by Walton, Britten and Tchaikovsky - music from his ever-popular ballet The Nutcracker. And following that, hot off the press from a concert given on Saturday by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek conducts Mahler's 2nd Symphony - The Resurrection, with soloists Chen Reiss and Katarina Karneus, and the Guildhall Symphony Chorus. Live from Salford Walton: Overture Scapino Britten: Quatre Chansons Francaises with Robin Tritschler (tenor) Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (highlights) Juanjo Mena (conductor) 2.55pm Symphony No.2 in C minor Resurrection Chen Reiss (soprano) Katarina Karneus (mezzo-soprano) Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) Afternoon on 3 is live every day this week at 2pm. Every programme features British music, as part of Afternoon on 3's continuing focus on home-grown music and artists. Today it's the turn of the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Junjo Mena. Tomorrow the BBC Singers bring us Music for Advent from Tonbridge School Chapel, with music from Palestrina through Arnold Bax to Nico Muhly. On Wednesday live at 2pm, the BBC Concert Orchestra with conductor Barry Wordsworth play music by Holst and Vaughan Williams, plus the world premiere of Jonathan Dove's portrait piece for Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi - suggested to the composer by Radio 3 listeners during R3's highly succesful Portraits Day in May this year. On Thursday live at 2pm, a concert with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins from the City Halls, Glasgow - including the UK premiere of Paul Hindemith's piano concerto for the left hand - written in 1923 for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in the First World War - although it was never performed by him. Olli Mustonen is the soloist in that and in Bartok's final work - his 3rd Piano Concerto, with its beautiful slow movement. On Friday live at 2pm, Garry Walker conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, in a concert of Christmas music by Samuel Barber, Gerald Finzi and Leroy Anderson. The soloists are harpist Catrin Finch and soprano Elin Manahan Thomas - who also guide us through proceedings. The BBC Philharmonic in Salford perform music by Walton, Britten and Tchaikovsky.
02	20121204	Penny Gore presents. We begin with choral music for Advent, from the BBC Singers, conducted by David Hill, Live from Tonbridge school, with music from Palestrina and Bach via Arnold Bax and Herbert Howells to Bob Chilcott, Nico Muhly and John Tavener. After 3pm there's a performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's concert last Saturday at the Barbican Centre in London, with young soloist Francesco Piemontesi. Jiri Belohlavek conducts. Our British theme continues with another concerto - for flute, by Jonathan Dove. And the BBC Singers return with new choral music by Gordon Crosse, who celebrated his 75th birthday at the weekend. 2pm Advent music by Palestrina, Bach, Arnold Bax, Herbert Howells, Bob Chilcott, Cecilia McDowall, Nico Muhly and John Tavener. James McVinnie (organ), David Hill (conductor) 3.15pm Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 Francesco Piemontesi (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor) 3.45pm Jonathan Dove: The Magic Flute Dances Emily Beynon (flute), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bramwell Tovey (conductor) Gordon Crosse: Sabbath Rest Gavin Roberts (organ) Paul Brough (conductor). The BBC Singers perform advent music by Palestrina, Bach, Bax and others.
03	20121205	Presented by Penny Gore. Live at 2pm we join the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth at Cadogan Hall in London for a concert of British music, as part of Afternoon on 3's continuing focus of homegrown music and performers. The concert begins with Holst - his ballet music from the opera The Perfect Fool - and ends with the Fifth Symphony by Holst's close friend Vaughan Williams, written in the darkest days of the Second World War and premiered in 1943. Between these, the BBC Concert Orchestra give the world premiere performance of a piece by Jonathan Dove - Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese opposition politician. On Radio 3's highly successful Portrait Day in May this year, listeners were asked to suggest an individual for Jonathan Dove to compose a portrait of. This is the first chance to hear what Dove has come up with...... Holst: The Perfect Fool (ballet music) Jonathan Dove: Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D Barry Wordsworth (conductor) 3.20pm Malcolm Arnold: Larch Trees BBC Philharmonic Richard Davis (conductor). The BBC Concert Orchestra perform pieces by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Jonathan Dove.
04	20121206	Penny Gore presents. Live at 2pm - The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins perform music by Bartok and Hindemith, including Bartok's 3rd Piano Concerto - his last completed work - written not as a commission by a starry soloist or big arts organisation, but as a final gift for his wife, filled with a lifetime's worth of a shared love of folk-inspired music. The programme also includes the first UK performance of a piece by Paul Hindemith - his Piano Concerto for the left hand. Hindemith wrote the concerto for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in the First World War, but Wittgenstein never played it and the world premiere took place in Berlin as recently as 2004, long after both dedicatee and composer were dead. 2pm (Live) Bartok: Dance Suite Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3 Olli Mustonen (piano), BBC Scottish Symphomy Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor). 2.45 Interval Ivor Gurney: A Gloucestershire Rhapsody David Perry (conductor) 3.10 (Live) Hindemith: Piano Concerto for the left hand, Op. 29 Hindemith: Symphony Mathis der Maler The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Bartok and Hindemith.
05	20121207	With Penny Gore. Live at 2pm: Afternoon on 3's week of live concerts by the BBC's orchestras and BBC Singers ends with a seasonal concert from Cardiff. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales are joined at their home base, BBC Hoddinott Hall, by conductor Garry Walker, and by harpist Catrin Finch and soprano Elin Manahan Thomas - who also guide us through works by Samuel Barber, Gabriel Pierne, Daniel Jones, Gerald Finzi and Leroy Anderson. Barber: Die Natali Pierne: Concert Piece for harp and orchestra Daniel Jones: Five Pieces for Orchestra Finzi: Dies Natalis Leroy Anderson: Christmas Festival Catrin Finch (harp), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Garry Walker. Music by Barber, Pierne, Jones, Finzi and Anderson from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff.