About This Show
The BBC Concert Orchestra is one of the country s most versatile ensembles. For more than half a century it has been the house orchestra for BBC Radio 2 s Friday Night is Music Night and gives regular broadcasts on BBC Radio 3. Its work can be heard on soundtracks to many BBC TV programmes including Blue Planet, Frozen Planet and Human Planet.
Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey for an evening of classics and surprises, including Coleridge-Taylor’s Concert Suite and Principal Clarinettist Nicholas Carpenter’s concerto debut playing Weber’s great Clarinet Concerto No 2. Having enjoyed playing Ruth Gipps’ Symphony 2 recently, the BBC CO explore more of her work, and the show ends with two composers’ depictions of daybreak and morning – culminating in Grieg’s popular Hall of the Mountain King.