Last July a small village high in the Swiss
Alps hosted one of the best-kept secrets of European music-making-the Verbier Festival and Academy. Helen Wallace introduces the first of this week's five programmes from the festival and talks to some of the participants. Including music performed by the Orchestra of the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia. Strauss Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche Conductor Kent Nagano
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Hilary Hahn , conductor Neville Marriner Strauss Closing Scene (Capriccio) Barbara Hendricks (soprano), conductor Kent Nagano Producer Lyndon Jones