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Afternoon on 3: Vienna

Afternoon Concert: Vienna: Episode 1

Episode 1

Vienna

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Vienna, Episode 1

With the Vienna Philharmonic in Brahms' Symphony No 4. Plus Sibelius: Symphony No 1.

Concerts featuring music and performers from Vienna. With Haydn: Symphony No 104. Zeisl: The Ninety-Second Psalm. Brahms: Symphony No 4. Plus Handel and Sibelius.

Music and performances from Vienna feature strongly in this week's programmes. By contrast there is also a cycle of the Sibelius symphonies recorded in concerts given by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under their young Finnish Music Director Pietari Inkinen.

Haydn: Symphony No.104 (London)

2.20
Zeisl: The Ninety-Second Psalm ('Requiem Ebraico') 
Ildiko Raimondi, (sop) 
Elisabeth Kulman, (con) 
Adrian ErÃ¶d, (bass) 
Vienna Musikverein Chorus 

2.40
Brahms: Symphony No.4
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 
Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)

Handel: Dixit Dominus
Emma Bell & Bibiana Nwobilo (sops)
Elisabeth von Magnus (con)
Kenneth Tarver (ten)
Timothy Sharp (bar)
Arnold SchÃ¶nberg Choir
Vienna Concentus Musicus
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

4.20
Sibelius: Symphony No.1 
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra 
Pietari Inkinen (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Vienna

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Series of concerts featuring music and performers from Vienna. Plus Sibelius from the NZSO

Series of concerts featuring music and performers from Vienna - as well as played by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

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