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Afternoon on 3 - BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra - Episode 2

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Today's programme featuring the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra includes the first performance of Tarik O'Regan's The Night's Untruth. Plus another chance to hear a concert the Singers gave during the 2008 Aldeburgh Festival, conducted by David Hill. And the BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by soprano Elizabeth Watts for the music Walton wrote for the film As you like it, followed by Prokofiev's ballet music for Romeo and Juliet. Presented by Penny Gore 2pm Tarik O'Regan: The Night's Untruth (first performance) BBC Singers Onyx Brass Stephen Disley (organ) Nicholas Cleobury (conductor) Hannah Kendall: Fundamental BBC Singers Onyx Brass Nicholas Cleobury (conductor) 2.30 Britten Quatre Chansons Francaises Susan Gritton (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner (conductor) 2.50 Walton: As you Like it Elizabeth Watts (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Paul Daniel (conductor) 3.05 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - extracts BBC Symphony Orchestra Paul Daniel (conductor) 3.45 Schumann: 4 Songs for double chorus, Op.141 Crawford Seeger: 3 Chants for women's chorus Britten: Sacred and profane Kurtag: 8 Choruses to poems by Deszo Tandori Messiaen: 5 Rechants BBC Singers David Hill (conductor).