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Afternoon on 3: Vienna

Afternoon Concert: Vienna: Episode 2

Vienna

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Vienna, Episode 2

The Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra in Haydn: Symphony No 78. Plus Sibelius: Tapiola.

Concerts featuring music and performers from Vienna. With Haydn: Symphony No 78. Brahms: String Quartet in A minor. Handel: Dettingen Te Deum. Plus Sibelius: Tapiola; Symphony No 2.

Your ticket to performances from around Europe and the world.  Continuing a week of concerts featuring music and performers from Vienna - and Sibelius recorded in New Zealand. Today's programe includes chamber music by Brahms, one of Vienna's most distinguished performing groups in music by Handel, and Sibelius's final and most concentrated tone-poem.

Haydn: Symphony No. 78 in C Minor
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Jordi Savall (conductor)

2.25
Brahms: String Quartet in A Minor Op.51 No.2
Jerusalem Quartet 

2.55
Handel: Dettingen Te Deum
Elisabeth von Magnus (mezzo)
Kenneth Tarver (ten)
Timothy Sharp (bar)
Arnold SchÃ¶nberg Choir
Vienna Concentus Musicus
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

3.55
Sibelius: Tapiola
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra 
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)


4.15
Sibelius: Symphony No.2
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra 
Pietari Inkinen (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Vienna

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 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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