大象传媒

Jonathan Swain presents the last programme in this Afternoon on 3 week as part of Radio 3's continuing celebration of British music. Today's British symphonies are by Ralph Vaughan Williams - no. 9, his third symphony of the week - and James MacMillan, who conducts his own Third Symphony of 2002, entitled 'Silence' after the novel of the same name by the twentieth-century Japanese writer Shusaku Endo.

Plus the Beethoven, Webern and the 大象传媒 Singers round off their series of choral music by Samuel Sebastian Wesley.

James MacMillan: Symphony no. 3 (Silence)
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
James MacMillan (conductor).

2.35pm
S S Wesley: By the word of the Lord
Olivia Robinson (soprano),
Lynette Alcantara (mezzo-soprano),
Robert Johnston (tenor),
Andrew Rupp (bass),
Richard Pearce (piano),
大象传媒 Singers,
Paul Brough (conductor).

2.55pm
Webern: Variations for Orchestra
Ulster Orchestra,
Jurjen Hempel (conductor).

3.00pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat (Emperor)
Steven Osborne (piano)

3.40pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no. 9
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Manze (conductor).