Afternoon on 3 - The Big Concert Plus - Episode 4

Last Sunday the BBC's seven performing groups all gave live concerts on Radio 3. In this week's Afternoon on 3 Penny Gore picks up the baton to celebrate all seven performing groups with a concert each - from right across the UK and Europe. Today she rounds off the week with the BBC's orchestras based in south-east England: the BBC Concert Orchestra showcasing the early twentieth-century British repertoire that is their speciality, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a blockbuster concert from their Spanish tour with Chief Conductor Jiri Belohlavek and soprano Christine Brewer - here heard in the stunning new concert hall at Oviedo in the far north of the country. Alwyn: Derby Day Quilter: New Serenade BBC Concert Orchestra Gavin Sutherland, conductor 2.20pm Brian: Shadow Dance (from The Tigers) Moeran: Lonely Waters BBC Concert Orchestra Gavin Sutherland, conductor 2.35pm Bowen: Symphony no. 1 in G major BBC Concert Orchestra Gavin Sutherland, conductor 3.15pm Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder Christine Brewer, soprano BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek, conductor 3.35pm Bruckner: Symphony no. 5 in B flat major BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek, conductor.