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Penny Gore presents music complementing the BBC Four Symphony series, featuring the BBC Philharmonic. Liszt: Hamlet. Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor. Liszt: Faust Symphony.

Penny Gore continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series.

Today Penny reaches the climax of Afternoon on 3's Beethoven Symphony cycle with the work that changed the Symphony forever: his Ninth and last Symphony, transcending the orchestra with the human voice in its final "Ode to Joy". She also features two pieces - a Symphony and a Symphonic Poem - by Liszt, who continued the 'humanisation' of the symphony by popularising the idea that it could depict character.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Fri 18 Nov 201114:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    Hamlet

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda Performer: BBC Philharmonic

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 9 in D minor

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda Performer: Alastair Miles (bass) Performer: Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano) Performer: Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) Performer: Paul Nilon (tenor) Performer: BBC Philharmonic Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

  • Franz Liszt

    A Faust symphony

    Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda Performer: BBC Philharmonic

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Nov 201114:00
    BBC Radio 3