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The Best of the BBC Performing Groups (3/5)

Concluding a week of highlights from the BBC performing groups, a concert of English music from the BBC NOW and Bartok from Ulster. Introduced by Tom McKinney

A week of highlights from the BBC performing groups concludes with a concert of English music from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Bartok from Ulster, introduced by Tom McKinney.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

John Woolrich; Ulysses Awakes
Peter Warlock: The Curlew
Judith Bingham: Strange Words
Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite
Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae for viola and strings
Becky Jones (viola)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Alice Neary (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales directed by Lesley Hatfield

The Ulster Orchestra

Bela Bartok: Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste
Ulster Orchestra conducted by Jac Van Steen

2 hours, 31 minutes

Last on

Fri 18 Dec 202014:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • John Woolrich

    Ulysses awakes

    Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Rebecca Jones. Director: Lesley Hatfield.

  • Peter Warlock

    The Curlew

    Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Director: Lesley Hatfield. Singer: James Gilchrist.

  • Judith Bingham

    Strange words

    Performer: Alice Neary. Singer: James Gilchrist.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol suite

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Director: Lesley Hatfield.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Lachrymae, 'Reflections on a song of Dowland', Op 48a

    Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Rebecca Jones. Director: Lesley Hatfield.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Kindertotenlieder

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Singer: Claudia Huckle. Conductor: Michael Sanderling.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (Lyric Pieces - book 8 Op.65)

    Orchestrator: Franz Josef Breuer. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt, Sigur Jorsalfar.
    • NAXOS.
    • 11.

  • Béla Bartók

    Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Jac van Steen.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Dec 202014:00
    BBC Radio 3