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Celebrating the BBC Orchestras

The BBC Symphony Orchestra play Schumann and Robin Holloway Sophie Bevan joins them for Copland's Emily Dickinson Songs.

Natasha Riordan presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra, live from Maida Vale Studios.

Robin Holloway/Schumann: Canonic Studies
Copland: Emily Dickinson Songs
Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
BBC SO
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

3.15: Georgia Mann presents recent recordings by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Weir: Moon & Star
BBC Singers
BBC SO
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Brahms: Symphony No. 3
BBC SO
Sakari Oramo, conductor

Helen Grime: Elegiac Inflections
BBC SO Wind 10tet
Ryan Wigglesworth

John Adams: Harmonium
BBC Symphony Chorus
Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Edward Gardner (conductor)

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Tue 8 Dec 202014:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Robin Holloway

    Six Canonic Studies (Schumann/Holloway)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.

  • Aaron Copland

    12 Poems of Emily Dickinson

    Performer: Sophie Bevan. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Robert Schumann

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op.52

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Judith Weir

    Moon and Star

    Choir: BBC Singers. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • NMC.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony no.3 in F Op.90

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Helen Grime

    Elegiac Inflections

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • John Adams

    Harmonium

    Choir: Proms Youth Choir Academy. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep may safely graze

    Music Arranger: John Barbirolli. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 Dec 202014:00
    BBC Radio 3