Handel's Zadok the Priest

With Katie Derham

With "Ten Pieces" the BBC is aiming to inspire a generation of children in primary schools to get creative with Classical Music, and every weekday this week an next, Afternoon on 3 offers a chance to hear the whole works at the beginning of each programme at 2pm.

Today the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales perform Handel's Zadok the Priest.

For more about Ten Pieces visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01vs08w

The rest of the programme features the BBC Philharmonic in recent recordings, including Mahler's Todtenfeier with soprano Hillevi Martinpelto, and Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Elena Urioste.

2pm
Ten Pieces
Handel
Zadok the Priest, HWV.258
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales
Richard Hickox (conductor)

2.05
Bax
Overture, Elegy and Rondo
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis (conductor)

2.30
Mahler
Todtenfeier (orig vers)
BBC Philharmonic
Hillevi Martinpelto (sop)
John Storgards (conductor)

3.00
Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D, Op 61
Elena Urioste (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Farnes (conductor)

3.50
Brahms
Symphony No.3 in F
BBC Philharmonic
Richard Farnes (conductor).