The Ulster Orchestra will be the featured orchestra on BBC Radio 3's Afternoon Concert on 3 programmes each day of the week beginning Monday 18 March 2019. The pieces featured are primarily recordings of recent Friday night concerts and feature conductors such as outgoing Artistic Director Rafael Payare, Principal Guest Conductor Jac van Steen and guests such as Olari Elts, Andrew Litton and Eivind Gullberg Jensen, while featured soloists include Steven Osborne, Ingrid Fliter and Baiba Skride. A full list of works, conductors and soloists is as follows:
MONDAY 18 MARCH 2019, 2PM – RADIO 3 AFTERNOON CONCERT
Andrew Litton conducts:
| Rossini |
Overture: William Tell |
| Prokofiev |
Symphony No.4, Op.112, C major |
| Beethoven |
Piano Concerto No.4, Op.58, G major
Soloist: Steven Osborne |
Rafael Payare conducts:
TUESDAY 19 MARCH 2019, 2PM – RADIO 3 AFTERNOON CONCERT
Eivind Gullberg Jensen conducts:
| Anna Clyne |
This Midnight Hour |
| Chopin |
Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 21, F minor
Soloist: Ingrid Fliter |
| Tchaikovsky |
Symphony No.6, Op. 74, B minor Pathétique |
Andrew Gourlay conducts:
| James MacMillan |
Britannia |
Rafael Payare conducts:
| Shostakovich |
Symphony No.10, Op.93 in E minor |
WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH 2019, 2PM - RADIO 3 AFTERNOON CONCERT
Rafael Payare conducts:
| Schoenberg |
Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 |
| Brahms |
Symphony No.4, Op. 98, E minor |
THURSDAY 21 MARCH 2019, 4PM - RADIO 3 AFTERNOON CONCERT
Andrew Gourlay conducts:
FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2019, 2PM - RADIO 3 AFTERNOON CONCERT
Jac van Steen conducts
| Ives |
The Unanswered Question |
| Bernstein |
Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)
Soloist: Baiba Skride |
| Dvořák |
Symphony No.9, Op.95, E minor From the New World |
Rafael Payare conducts:
| Mozart |
Piano Concerto No.24
Soloist: Víkingur Ólafsson |
Olari Elts conducts:
Rumon Gamba conducts:
Baldur Brönnimann conducts:
| Debussy |
Nuages from Nocturnes |
Nicholas Chalmers conducts:
| Norman Hay |
Lament for Hugh Reynolds |
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