大象传媒

Jonathan Swain continues Afternoon on 3's month-long celebration of British symphonies with the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra. Today he introduces two 'number threes': Stanford's 'Irish' Symphony from the Ulster Orchestra and Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony from the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Plus the 大象传媒 Singers in choral music by Samuel Sebastian Wesley, and the 大象传媒 SSO playing Liszt and Bartok from their recent tour to the Netherlands.

Across the week in Afternoon on 3 you can hear three Vaughan Williams Symphonies: nos. 3, 5 and 9. The week's other British symphonists are Ernest Moeran, Elizabeth Maconchy, Robert Simpson and James MacMillan. And to complement the British music there are Austro-Hungarian and German classics, from Mozart and Beethoven via Schumann, Brahms and Liszt to Bartok and Webern.

The Thursday Opera Matinee is a little-known work by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert, L'Aiglon, about the life of Napoleon Bonaparte's son - The Young Eagle' of the title.

Stanford: Symphony no. 3 (Irish)
Ulster Orchestra,
Vernon Handley (conductor).

2.40pm
S S Wesley: I wish to tune my quiv'ring lyre
大象传媒 Singers,
Conductor Paul Brough.

2.45pm
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz no. 1
3.00pm
Bartok: Violin Concerto no. 2
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin),
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Ilan Volkov (conductor).

3.40pm
Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony (Symphony no. 3)
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Manze (conductor).