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Ulster Orchestra Featured on BBC Radio 3 Afternoon Concert on 3

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 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: 
 
Brukner Symphony No.4                   

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:
 
Mendelssohn Ruy Blas                                                           

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: 
 
Balakirev Tamara                                            

Rumon Gamba conducts:
 
Eric Fogg Merok                                               

Baldur Brönnimann conducts: 
 
Debussy Nuages from Nocturnes             

Nicholas Chalmers conducts: 
 
Norman Hay Lament for Hugh Reynolds                              

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