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Afternoon on 3: Summer Festivals 2010

Afternoon Concert: Summer Festivals 2010: Episode 5

Summer Festivals 2010

Episode 5

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Summer Festivals 2010, Episode 5

Jonathan Swain presents music by Haydn, Smetana, Enescu, M Haydn, Panufnik and Adams.

Presented by Jonathan Swain. Haydn: String Quartet in C (excerpt). Smetana: Tabor and Blanik (Ma Vlast). Enescu: Concertstuck. M Haydn: Notturno in G. Panufnik: Sinfonia elegiaca.

This week Afternoon on 3 celebrates the riches and diversity of 2010's musical summer, with performances from leading festivals in Europe and beyond, by some of the world's great singers, instrumentalists and ensembles. 

You can hear the best concerts from 25 festivals in fifteen countries - as far afield as Finland, Moldova and Canada. At the heart of the week will be concerts from top festivals in Austria and Switzerland, including the Martha Argerich Project in Lugano and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's Styriarte Festival in Graz. The Thursday Opera Matinee is Bellini's Norma, conducted by Fabio Biondi with his period-instrument ensemble Europa Galante at the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw. Large choral works will be a particular feature throughout the week - from Bach's B minor Mass through Haydn's Creation and Beethoven's Missa solemnis to Rachmaninov's Vespers and a celebration of Arvo Pärt's 75th birthday in his native Estonia.

Presented by Jonathan Swain

Joseph Haydn: Poco adagio from String Quartet in C, Op. 76/3 (Hob. III:77)
Casals Quartet
(Haydn Days Festival, Eisenstadt, Austria)

Smetana: Tabor and Blanik from Ma Vlast
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
(Styriarte Festival, Graz, Austria)

Enescu: Concertstück 
Yuri Bashmet, viola
Martha Argerich, piano
(Martha Argerich Project, Lugano, Switzerland) 

Michael Haydn: Notturno in G major
Budapest Strings
(Haydn at Eszterháza Festival, Fertöd, Hungary) 

Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in G, Hob. XV.25 ('Gipsy Rondo')
Romanian Piano Trio
(Enescu and the Music of the World Festival, Sinaia, Romania) 

Saint-Saens: Tarantella for Flute, Clarinet and Piano, Op. 6
The Berlin Philharmonic and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Soloists: 
Gili Schwarzman, flute 
Shirley Brill, clarinet
Jonathan Aner, piano
(St Mark's Festival, Zagreb, Croatia)

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Mariss Jansons, conductor
(Robeco Summer Series, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Bizet: Jeux d'enfants (excerpts)
Jonathan Biss and Oliver Triendl, pianos
(Delft Chamber Music Festival, Netherlands)

Panufnik: Sinfonia elegiaca
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marek Mos, conductor
(Musica Polonica Nova Polish Contemporary Music Festival, Wroclaw, Poland)

Panufnik: Invocation for Peace
Gaudium Chorus of the University of Wroclaw
Cantilena Male Chamber Chorus
Marek Mos, conductor
(Musica Polonica Nova Polish Contemporary Music Festival, Wroclaw, Poland)

John Adams: Relaxed Groove, from Road Movies
(Queen Violin Festival, Chisinau, Moldova)

Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Simone Schneider, soprano 
Gerhild Romberger, contralto 
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor 
Reinhard Hagen, bass 
Collegium Vocale, Ghent 
Coro dell'Accademia Chigiana 
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées 
Conductor Philippe Herreweghe 
(Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Warsaw, Poland).

Afternoon Concert: Summer Festivals 2010

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Jonathan Swain presents music from festivals in Europe and beyond performed in 2010

Jonathan Swain celebrates 2010's musical summer, with performances from leading festivals in Europe and beyond, by some of the world's great singers, instrumentalists and ensembles

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