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Vintage Years

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

with David Mellor.
For 25 years
Bernard Haitink presided over the world's most sheerly beautiful orchestra in one of the world's greatest halls, Amsterdam's
Concertgebouw. Today, he traces a century of the orchestra's excellence, with excerpts from
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor conductor Willem
Mengelberg (1928)
Bach St Matthew Passion conductor Willem
Mengelberg (1939)
Britten Peter Grimes conductor Eduard van
Beinum (1947)
Bruckner Symphony No 7 in conductor Eduard van
Beinum (1953)
Mahler Symphony No 2 in C minor
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) conductor Otto Klemperer (1951)
Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) conductor Erich Kleiber
(1950)
Strauss Ein Heldenleben conductor Bernard Haitink
(1970)
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Contributors

Unknown:
David Mellor.
Unknown:
Bernard Haitink
Conductor:
Britten Peter Grimes
Contralto:
Kathleen Ferrier
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer
Conductor:
Erich Kleiber
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Source: Radio Times

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