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Youth Orchestras of the World

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Aberdeen International Youth Festival
The Aberdeen International Youth
Festival Orchestra is a unique ensemble: auditions take place throughout the event with members of the participating groups. This summer, Janos Furst conducted players gathered from the Netherlands, Estonia, Portugal, Germany and England, and a prize-winner from the 1984 festival, Canadian violinist
Kai Gleusteen. David McGuinness introduces the concert and finds out how the orchestra takes shape in the last of the series.
Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor

Contributors

Unknown:
Janos Furst
Violinist:
Kai Gleusteen.
Introduces:
David McGuinness
Source: Radio Times

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