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Afternoon on 3: Dresden and Leipzig

Afternoon Concert: Dresden and Leipzig: Episode 1

Episode 1

Dresden and Leipzig

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Dresden and Leipzig, Episode 1

Staatskapelle Dresden in Schumann. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Mozart, Elgar, Widmann.

Celebrating the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture. Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Elgar: Cello Concerto.

This week Afternoon on 3 features performances from the Dresden Staatskapelle and Lepizig Gewandhaus Orchestras. Today's programme includes two favourites from the concerto repertoire: Elgar's Cello Concerto and Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Plus Schumann's Rhenish Symphony and a Bach Cantata recorded at the Leipzig Bach Festival.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

2pm
Mozart: Don Giovanni Overture 
Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

2.45pm
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor
Marie-Elisabeth Hecker (cello)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Gérard Korsten (conductor)

3.15pm
Bach: Gott, man lobt dich in der Stille, BWV.120
Dorothee Mields (soprano)
Damien Guillon (alto)
Colin Balzer (tenor)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Collegium Vocale Ghent
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

Jörg Widmann: Con brio 
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)

3.50pm
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622
Jörg Widmann (clarinet)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)

4.25pm 
Schumann: Symphony no.3 in E flat major, 'Rhenish'
Dresden Staatskapelle
Daniel Harding (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Dresden and Leipzig

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Louise Fryer celebrates the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Louise Fryer presents a celebration of two venerable German performing groups - the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

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