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Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon on 3: Austrian Performing Groups

Afternoon Concert: Austrian Performing Groups: Episode 1

Episode 1

Austrian Performing Groups

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Austrian Performing Groups, Episode 1

Louise Fryer presents Haydn: String Quartets, Op 20 Nos 1, 4, plus leading Austrian groups

Louise Fryer presents Haydn's String Quartets, Op 20, Nos 1 and 4 in recordings by Quatuor Mosaiques, plus leading performing groups from Austria.

Louise Fryer is helped by two of Britain's leading chamber musicians, Peter Cropper and Simon Rowland-Jones, to present a season of Haydn String Quartets. Including the Opus 20 set - considered to have virtually defined the genre - which has been specially recorded by the Quatuor Mosaiques.

Plus a focus on some of Austria's pre-eminent performing groups.

2.10pm
Haydn: String Quartet in E flat, Op 20, No 1
Quatuor Mosaiques

Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 20, No 4
Quatuor Mosaiques

3.05pm
A sequence of arias by Haydn and Mozart, including:

Haydn: Fra un dolce deliro (L'isola disabitata)                      
Mozart: Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio, K418
Patricia Petibon (soprano)
Concentus Musicus, Vienna
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)

3.45pm
Brett Dean: Sextet for piano and Winds (Polysomnography)
Ensemble Wien-Berlin

4.15pm
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op 77
Midori (violin) 
Linz Bruckner Orchestra 
Dennis Russell Davies (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Austrian Performing Groups

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