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大象传媒 Hoddinott Hall is the home of the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Part of the Wales Millennium centre, it provides the orchestra with a recording studio and concert hall with a 350 seat capacity. The hall is also an excellent venue for chamber music - as we'll discover in Radio 3's lunchtime concerts this week. During the afternoons, we'll be hearing from those artists who have given recitals here following them through to performances with the orchestra, and hearing 大象传媒 NOW in action in concert, in session, in Wales and beyond.

Today we go live to 大象传媒 Hoddinott Hall to hear the orchestra in action with a long-time friend and frequent guest conductor David Atherton. We're also joined by ex-Radio 3 New Generation Artist Andrew Kennedy. Together we explore three faces of English music: the warmth and good humour of Elgar, the dreamlike atmosphere of Britten and the raw energy and anger of Vaughan Williams - not quite what we might expect from the quintessential purveyor of "pastoral". Our soloist for the preceding Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert was violist Lawrence Power. He was recently recording works by Vaughan Williams with the orchestra for CD with Hyperion, but the finished product is still under wraps, so we've a set of choral variations from an earlier collaboration between soloist and orchestra, by French composer Vincent d'Indy.

Presented by Katie Derham.