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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: Summer Festivals 2009

Afternoon Concert: Summer Festivals 2009: Episode 9

Episode 9

Summer Festivals 2009

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Summer Festivals 2009, Episode 9

Music from festivals around the world, by Wagner, Chabrier, Vierne, Honegger, Tchaikovsky.

Louise Fryer with music from festivals around the world. Including Wagner: Prelude (Tristan und Isolde). Plus works by Chabrier, Vierne, Terry Riley, Honegger and Tchaikovsky.

Louise Fryer concludes a series featuring music from summer music festivals across the world in 2009, with a whistlestop tour through France, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and back to Budapest. Along the way Louise encounters a saxophone quartet, a piano duet and two very different views of the music of a perennial European traveller - Richard Wagner.

Chabrier: Souvenir de Munich - quadrille on themes from Tristan und Isolde
Alexander Mogilevsky, Lily Maisky (piano)

Vierne: Piano Quintet in C minor, Op 42
Modigliani Quartet
Jean-Frederic Neuberger (piano)

Terry Riley: Tread on the Tail
Arte Quartet:
Beat Hofstetter (soprano sax)
Sascha Armbruster (alto sax)
Andrea Formenti (tenor sax)
Beat Kappeler (baritone sax)

2.10pm
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Finnish Chamber Orchestra
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

Schumann: Trio in D minor, Op 63
Jeffrey Kahne (piano)
Joseph Swensen (violin)
Paul Watkins (cello)

3.30pm
Honegger: Symphony 3 (Liturgique)
Orchestre National de France
Daniele Gatti (conductor)

Wagner: Prelude (Tristan und Isolde); Wesendonck Lieder
Camilla Nylund (soprano)
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Marek Janowski (conductor)

4.35pm
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tomas Netopil (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Summer Festivals 2009

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Series celebrating the riches and diversity of 2009's musical summer

Series celebrating the riches and diversity of 2009's musical summer, with visits to over 30 European festivals and performances by some of the world's great singers, instrumentalists and ensembles

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