Afternoon on 3 - Folk Influences - Episode 2

In the run-up to the 2008 BBC Proms Folk day, Penny Gore presents music with a highly nationalistic flavour, by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe. Butterworth: The Banks of green willow - idyll for orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox (conductor) Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne (selection) Patricia Rozario (soprano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Grant Llewellyn (conductor) Bridge: Two Old English songs - vers. for string orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox (conductor) Tippett: Four Songs from the British Isles - arr. for chorus BBC Singers Stephen Cleobury (conductor) 3.00pm Smetana: Ma vlast (My country) (Bohemia's Woods and Fields) BBC National Orchestra of Wales David Charles Abell (conductor) Dvorak: Symphony No 6 in D, Op 60 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jac van Steen (conductor) 4.00pm Liszt: Mesto (Heroide elegiaque) (Hungarian national melodies, S242) Eduard Kunz (piano) Mansel Thomas: Suite of folksongs for chorus and orchestra BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales Adrian Partington (conductor) Vaughan Williams: 5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus BBC National Orchestra of Wales Lesley Hatfield (director).