Afternoon on 3 - Exile - Episode 3

Presented by Jonathan Swain. Performances by BBC orchestras of music with the theme of displacement, featuring composers who left their native countries. With music by Britten, who, unlike Rachmaninov and Martinu, left his home by choice, having objected to Britain's participation in the Second World War, and Milhaud, who was forced to flee Europe as the Nazis overran the continent. He never forgot his roots in rural southern France - as his suite for wind quintet La cheminee du roi Rene shows. But after the war he continued to live and teach in the USA for many years, enjoying travelling backwards between the two countries and cultures. Smetana: Vltava (Ma Vlast) BBC Philharmonic Michal Dworzynski (conductor) Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Andrew Kennedy (tenor) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Tadaaki Otaka (conductor) 2.40pm Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op 43 Lukas Vondracek (piano) BBC Philharmonic Vassily Sinaisky (conductor) Martinu: Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No 6) BBC Philharmonic Gunther Herbig (conductor) 3.30pm Milhaud: La cheminee du roi Rene, Op 205 Galliard Ensemble.