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Afternoon on 3: Norway and Sweden

Afternoon Concert: Norway and Sweden: Episode 2

Episode 2

Norway and Sweden

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Norway and Sweden, Episode 2

Penny Gore introduces the Swedish Radio SO in Berlioz and Bruckner's 9th Symphony.

Penny Gore presents music focusing on Norway and Sweden, including the Swedish Radio SO in Berlioz, Bruckner's 9th Symphony, plus works by Ingvar Lidholm and Lasse Thoresen.

Penny Gore presents a celebration of the musical life of Norway and Sweden, featuring Daniel Harding conducting his Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz - with noted Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman - and the premiere of a four-movement version of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony.

Plus 90th birthday celebrations for Sweden's greatest choral conductor, Eric Ericsson, and more from the Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival, in Norway's European Capital of Culture. 

Schubert: Adagio (Octet)
Stavanger International Chamber Music Festival Ensemble

David Wikander: Spring Evening
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir 
Swedish Radio Chorus
Peter Dijkstra (conductor)

Berlioz: La mort de Cleopatre
Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

Lasse Thoresen: Piano Trio No 2 (The descent of Luminous Waters)
Grieg Trio

Three songs from Venezuela
Schola Juvenil Chorus
Alberto Grau, Luimar Arismendi (directors)

Bruckner: Symphony No 9 (including performing version of the Finale by Samale-Phillips-Cohrs-Mazzuca)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding (conductor)

Ingvar Lidholm: ... a riveder le stelle
Hannah Holgersson (soprano)
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Swedish Radio Chorus
Peter Dijkstra (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Norway and Sweden

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A taste of the music of Norway and Sweden, at an important time culturally for them

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