Saturday Afternoon Concert

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Saturday afternoon concert of orchestral music (including choral orchestral items), from Baroque to contemporary, featuring a major work each week.

Two great new releases.

Two spiffing new recordings this week on 3MBS’s Saturday Afternoon Concert on 3MBS. (4 Feb 2017).  A new Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 with the Czech Philharmonic that gets excellent reviews, and have you heard of George Frederick Boyle? He’s an Australian composer who taught Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber at the Curtis Institute!  His Piano Concerto is a joy.

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As well as boasting five years working for the internationally acclaimed Steinway and Sons in London, Gary has serviced pianos at The Barbican and Wigmore Halls, and the famous Abbey Road Studios in London. Gary is now putting his knowledge and expertise to use closer to home from his base in Point


18th May

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  • Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet, fantasy overture in B minor. Chicago SO/Claudio Abbado.
  • Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.47. Adele Anthony, vln., Adelaide SO/Arvo Volmer.
  • Mahler: Youth's Magic Horn, excerpts. Barbara Bonney, sop., RCO/Riccardo Chailly.
  • Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op.98. West Australian SO/Asher Fisch.

    • 11th May

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  • Michael Williamson joins Doug Beecroft in this special Radiothon edition which will include musical highlights from the past year, and definitely something by Beethoven and Elgar.

    • 4th May

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  • Ricardo Ataide joins Doug Beecroft in this special Radiothon edition which will include musical highlights from the past year, and definitely something by Mozart and Vaughan Williams.

    • 27th April

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  • Parry: Symphony No.2 in F major (The Cambridge). London PO/Matthias Bamert.
  • Bowen: Viola Concerto in C minor, Op.25. Lawrence Power, vla., BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.
  • Vaughan Williams: Romance. Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner.
  • Elgar: The Spirit of England, Op. 80. Andrew Staples, ten., BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Sir Andrew Davis

    • 20th April

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  • Bach: St. John Passion, BWV245. Stephen Varcoe, bar., Michael Chance, alto., Nancy Argenta, sop., Neill Archer, ten., Cornelius Hauptmann, bass, Andrew Murgatroyd, ten., Rufus Muller, ten., Simon Birchall, bar., Ruth Holton, sop., Anthony Rolfe Johnson, ten., Nicolas Robertson, ten., Gillian Ross, sop., Monteverdi Choir, EBS/Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

    • 13th April

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  • Faure: Masques et bergamasques, Op.112. Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet.
  • Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto No.4 in D minor, Op.31. Jascha Heifetz, vln., London SO/Sir John Barbirolli.
  • Ravel: Scheherazade. Jessye Norman, sop., London Symphony Orch/Sir Colin Davis
  • Franck: Symphonic variations. Howard Shelley, pno., London SO/Geoffrey Simon.
  • Magnard: Symphony No 4 in C sharp minor. BBC Scottish Symphony Orch/Jean-Yves Ossonce

    • 6th April

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  • Taneyev: Overture: The Oresteia, Op.6. Philharmonia Orch/Neeme Jarvi.
  • Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op.46. Lydia Mordkovitch, vln., Scottish NO/Neeme Jarvi.
  • Tchaikovsky: Jeanne d'Arc: Adieu, forets. Regina Resnik, m-sop., ROHO/Sir Edward Downes.
  • Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.44. Royal Liverpool PO/Sir Charles Mackerras.

    • 30th March

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  • Smetana: Bartered Bride - Overture. Minneapolis SO/Antal Dorati.
  • Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104, B191. Jacqueline du Pre, vlc., Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim.
  • Suk: Fantastic Scherzo, Op.25. Czech PO/Jiri Belohlavek.
  • Janacek: Glagolitic Mass. Felicity Palmer, sop., Ameral Gunson, mezzo-sop., John Mitchinson, ten., Malcolm King, bass, Jane Parker-Smith, org., City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Simon Rattle

    • 23rd March

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  • Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op.80. Scottish CO/Sir Charles Mackerras.
  • Schubert: Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus, Incidental Music, D.797. OAE/Sir Charles Mackerras.
  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op.61. Violin Concerto in D. James Ehnes, vln., Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orch/Andrew Manze
  • Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C, Op.61. Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman.

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