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Afternoon Concert

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

Afternoon on 3: Vienna

Afternoon Concert: Vienna: Episode 3

Vienna

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Vienna, Episode 3

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Haydn: Symphony No 91. Plus Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 4, 5.

Concerts featuring music and performers from Vienna. With Haydn: Symphony No 91 in E flat. Schumann: Songs to Poems by Heine. Plus Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 4 and 5.

Specially recorded music from around the world. Continuing this week's themes of Austrian music and performances - and Sibelius from New Zealand. One of Germany's leading period-instrument ensembles performs a Haydn Symphony, Canadian baritone Gerald Finley sings Schumann and Sibelius's darkest symphony is contrasted with one of his most optimistic.

Haydn: Symphony No.91 in E Flat
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Petra MÃ¼llejans (director)

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Schumann: Songs to Poems by Heinrich Heine
Gerald Finley (baritone)
Julius Drake (piano)

Sibelius: Symphony No.4
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra 
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

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Sibelius: Symphony No.5 
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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