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Afternoon on 3: European Summer Festivals 2007

Afternoon Concert: European Summer Festivals 2007: Episode 6

Episode 6

European Summer Festivals 2007

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, European Summer Festivals 2007, Episode 6

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, with the Aronowitz Ensemble playing Faure and Dvorak.

1.00pm Lunchtime Concert: The Aronowitz Ensemble. 2.00pm European Festivals: Highlights from this year's festivals, including works by Gershwin, Beethoven and Mahler.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Verity Sharp introduces a recital by the brilliant international soloists who make up the Aronowitz Ensemble, members of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme. Their programme pairs Faure's first piano quintet, the result of 15 years of reworking, with a late string quintet by Dvorak - which quotes a Native American theme the composer heard during a summer holiday spent with the Czech community in Spillville, Iowa.

Faure: Piano Quintet in D minor, Op 89
Dvorak: Quintet in E flat, Op 9

2.00pm European Festivals

The second week of highlights from festivals around Europe this summer begins with a trip from Estonia (with 18,000 young performers!) to Italy. Plus the first of three late Beethoven piano sonatas this week and Valery Gergiev tackles a Mahler Symphony for the first time.

Mihkel Ludig: Dawn
Combined Estonian Youth Choruses
Kuno Areng (conductor)

Gershwin: Bess, you is my woman now (Porgy and Bess)
Porgy ...... Daniel Washington (baritone)
Bess ...... Maureen Braithwaite (soprano)
Ruggero Maghini Philharmonic Chorus
Turin RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Wayne Marshall (conductor)

Dutilleux: L'arbre des songes
Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
Rotterdam Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 30 in E
Paul Lewis (piano)

Gershwin: It ain't necessarily so (Porgy and Bess)
Ronald Samm (tenor)
Ruggero Maghini Philharmonic Chorus
Turin RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Wayne Marshall (conductor)

Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor
Yuri Martynov (piano)
New Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 7
Rotterdam Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: European Summer Festivals 2007

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