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Afternoon Concert: Prom 18/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

Prom 18/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

04/08/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Prom 18/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

Another chance to hear the Bamberg SO performing music by Widmann, Bruckner and Mozart.

With Louise Fryer. BBC Proms 2009: Another chance to hear the Bamberg SO in music inspired by old masters: Widmann: Con brio. Bruckner: Symphony No 3. Mozart: Violin Concerto.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

BBC Proms 2009

Another chance to hear the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra's return to the Proms under its British-born principal conductor Jonathan Nott.

The programme features Jorg Widmann's Con brio, inspired by Beethoven, Mozart's Third Violin Concerto, featuring young German soloist Arabella Steinbacher making her Proms debut, and Bruckner's Third Symphony, which was dedicated to Wagner.

Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 
Jonathan Nott (conductor) 

Jorg Widmann: Con brio (UK premiere)
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216 
Bruckner: Symphony No 3 in D minor 

4.15pm
Piano Music

Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Freddy Kempf (piano)
Recorded at the 2009 Mananan Festival

Liszt: Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este (Annees de pelerinage - 3me Annee)
Philippe Cassard (piano).

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