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Afternoon Concert

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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: Vienna

Afternoon Concert: Vienna: Episode 4

Vienna

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Vienna, Episode 4

Featuring Haydn's Symphony No 77 and the NZSO in Sibelius' Symphonies Nos 3, 6 and 7.

Concerts featuring music and performers from Vienna. Includes Haydn: Symphony No 77. Sibelius: Symphony No 3. Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op 20 No 5. Sibelius: Symphony No 6.

Specially recorded music from around the world. After a Haydn symphony recorded in the Eisenstadt castle where the composer once worked the programme interleaves Sibelius symphonies from New Zealand with string quartets played by the Jerusalem Quartet (former Radio 3 New Generation Artists).

Haydn: Symphony No.77 in B flat Major
Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra
Jordi Savall (conductor)

2.20
Sibelius: Symphony No.3
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra 
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

2.55
Haydn: String Quartet in F Minor Op.20 No.5
Jerusalem Quartet

Sibelius: Symphony No.6
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra 
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

4.15
Haydn: String Quartet in G Major Op. 77 No.1 
Jerusalem Quartet

4.35
Sibelius: Symphony No.7
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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