大象传媒

Penny Gore continues Radio 3's celebration of British music throughout the month of June, and in particular Afternoon on 3's series of British Symphonies. Featured ensembles this week are two 大象传媒 orchestras, the 大象传媒 Philharmonic and the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales, and two brass bands - the Black Dyke and Foden's, performing at the 2013 Royal Northern College of Music Festival of Brass.

Today's programme starts with a concert by the 大象传媒 Philharmonic under the baton of Andrew Davis with music by three giants of British music from the first half of the 20th century: Elgar, Delius and Vaughan Williams. And later in the programme you can hear the 大象传媒 Philharmonic in Arnold Bax's Third Symphony, under the baton of a great Bax enthusiast, the late Vernon Handley.

Foden's Band play a virtuoso arrangement of Ravel's Suite No. 2 from the ballet Daphnis and Chloe, and the afternoon ends with more brass music: the world premiere of a piece by Edward Gregson called 'Of Distant Memories', performed by the Black Dyke Band.

Tomorrow you can hear the first-ever broadcast of a Symphony written by the famous conductor Leopold Stokowski - a single-movement work probably composed around 100 years ago. Despite his name and his carefully cultivated eastern European accent, Stokowski was as British as they come - he was born in Marylebone, London, of an Irish mother and an English father of Polish extraction. Other British Symphonies this week are by York Bowen, Alan Rawsthorne, Kenneth Leighton and Peter Maxwell Davies. And our Thursday Opera Matinee, as part of Verdi 200, is a performance of one of Verdi's least often heard works, Aroldo.

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C
Delius: Legende
Tasmin Little (violin),
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
Andrew Davis (conductor).

2.15pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony no. 2 (A London Symphony)
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
Andrew Davis (conductor).

3.00pm
Ravel (arr. Howard Snell): Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2
Foden's Band,
Mike Fowles (conductor).

3.15pm
Bax: Symphony No. 3
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
Vernon Handley (conductor).

4pm
Edward Gregson: Of Distant Memories (Music in an Olden Style) - World Premiere
Black Dyke Band,
Nicholas Childs (conductor).