大象传媒

Penny Gore launches Afternoon on 3's new season with summer sounds from the 大象传媒 Orchestras. She ends the week with an intrepid expedition led by three 大象传媒 Orchestras into the countryside and mountains of central Europe. Experienced mountain guide Donald Runnicles leads his 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra on a relaxed tramp through Beethoven's pastoral landscape (and a passing storm) before setting out on day-long traverse of an Alpine peak, as mapped out by Richard Strauss.

And to set the scene, we visit the small but perfectly formed Tatra mountain range on the border between Poland and Slovakia. Polish composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz and his Czech contemporary V铆tezslav Nov谩k both loved these mountains - Nov谩k even pioneered a route up one of the highest peaks, and Karlowicz was killed there in a skiing accident at the age of only 32 - and in the early years of the twentieth century, a decade before Strauss, they each wrote symphonic poems inspired by their Tatran experiences.

Mieczyslaw Karlowicz: Eternal Songs
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).

c. 2.25pm
V铆tezslav Nov谩k: In the Tatras
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra,
Jakub Hrusa (conductor).

c. 2.45pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 in F major (Pastoral)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles (conductor).

c. 3.30pm
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Donald Runnicles (conductor).