Tuesday - BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Fiona Talkington presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a series of concerts and recordings to continue Afternoon on 3's tone poem theme. Today features tone poems inspired by myths and legends with Sibelius's Tapiola and a specially recorded performance of Saint-Saëns's final tone poem, La Jeunesse d'Hercule. The 2pm concert is one the orchestra gave at Bangor's Prichard Jones Hall, featuring Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Dvorak's Seventh Symphony.

2pm
Janacek: Lachian Dances
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64
Smetana: Overture, The Bartered Bride
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op.70
Simone Lamsma (violin)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Otto Tausk (conductor)

c.3.40pm
Sibelius: Tapiola - tone poem, Op.112
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
B Tommy Andersson (conductor)

c. 4.00pm
Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow - idyll for orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kriss Russman (conductor)

Saint-Saëns: La jeunesse d'Hercule - symphonic poem, Op.50
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jun Markl (conductor).