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Music to complement the BBC Four Symphony series. Weill: Symphony No 2. Roussel: Symphony No 4. Barber: Symphony No 1. Shostakovich Symphony No 7 in C (Leningrad).

Katie Derham continues Radio 3's month of programmes complementing the BBC4 series "Symphony" - including every note of every Symphony featured in the television series. This week the Afternoon on 3 series reaches the twentieth century and find the Symphony flourishing far from its Austro-German foundations. Today we reach the 1930s and 1940s: the last gasp of the Germanic Symphony from Kurt Weill; the final Symphony by one of the finest of all French Symphonists, Albert Roussel; a Symphony by a precocious young American, Samuel Barber; and Shostakovich's monumental work composed in besieged Leningrad in 1941, which became a symbol of Russian resistance to Nazi Germany.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Thu 1 Dec 201114:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Kurt Weill

    Symphony no. 2

    Conductor: Mark Stringer Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

  • Albert Roussel

    Symphony no. 4 in A major

    Conductor: Pierre-Andre Valade Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra

  • Samuel Barber

    Symphony no. 1

    Conductor: Edwin Outwater Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony no. 7 in C major

    Conductor: Thierry Fischer Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Broadcast

  • Thu 1 Dec 201114:00
    BBC Radio 3