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The BBC Philharmonic in Hanley

Duration:
2 hours
First broadcast:
Saturday 03 March 2012

A BBC-led weekend of over 100 live music events across the UK - from Cornwall to the Shetland Isles and Belfast to Birmingham - launching the nationwide countdown to the London 2012 Festival.

Radio 3 celebrates live music-making all weekend, handing on the baton from concert to concert, featuring a wide range of professional and amateur events and talking to the people who've made it all happen. Presented by Andrew McGregor and Suzy Klein.

Stuart Flinders introduces a concert by the BBC Philharmonic, given last night at the Victoria Hall, Hanley. A Japanese conductor and soloist join the orchestra in a programme with an American flavour.

Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)
Copland: Appalachian Spring (Suite)
Bernstein: West Side Story - Symphonic Dances

BBC Philharmonic
Yutaka Sado (conductor).

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