大象传媒

Penny Gore continues Afternoon on 3's celebration of the British Symphony with performances by the 大象传媒 Philharmonic, 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales and 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Plus brass band music from the 2013 Royal Northern College of Music Festival of Brass.

This afternoon there are no fewer than three British Symphonies, including an exciting rarity - the first-ever recording, made specially for Afternoon on 3 by the 大象传媒 NOW, of a single movement Symphony by Leopold Stokowski, far more famous as a conductor than a composer. 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. Nobody knows exactly when he wrote his single movement Symphony, but it was probably about 100 years ago, when he was aged about 30. Today's other British Symphonies are by York Bowen and Alan Rawsthorne.

The programme opens with the first ever 'test piece' written for brass band - 100 years ago in 1913: Percy Fletcher's Labour and Love. It's performed by the Black Dyke Band at the 2013 RNCM Festival of Brass in January. And the Black Dyke return later in the afternoon with a world premiere: Peter Graham's 'Radio City' for trombone, narrator and brass band.

All that plus virtuoso accordion player Ksenija Sidorova (who wasn't born in Marylebone).

Percy Fletcher: Labour and Love
Black Dyke Band,
Robert Childs (conductor).

2.10pm
York Bowen: Symphony no. 2
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
Andrew Davis (conductor).

2.55pm
Patrick Hadley: Lines from 'The Cenci'
Lisa Milne (soprano),
大象传媒 Philharmonic,
John Wilson (conductor).

3pm
John Ireland: The Forgotten Rite
3.05pm
Stokowski: Symphony
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales,
Roberto Minczuk (conductor).

3.20pm
Trojan: Pohadka (Fairytale) - suite for accordion and orchestra
Ksenija Sidorova (accordion),
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales,
Clark Rundell (conductor).

3.30pm
Rawsthorne: Symphony no. 3
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra,
Norman Del Mar (conductor).

4.05pm
Peter Graham: Radio City for Trombone, Narrator and Band (World Premiere)
Brett Baker (trombone),
Dale Gerrard (narrator),
Black Dyke Band,
Robert Childs (conductor).