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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

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: Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond

Afternoon Concert: Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond: Episode 2

Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond, Episode 2

Penny Gore with music from 2010's summer festivals, from Verdi, Rodrigo, Vierner, Rigel.

Penny Gore presents music from 2010's summer festivals. Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces. Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez. Vierne: Piano Quintet, Op 42. Rigel: The Exodus from Egypt.

Vivaldi: Summer, from The Four Seasons, op. 8/2
Ani Kavafian, violin
Daniel Ching, violin
Sandy Yamamoto, violin
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele, cello
Scott Pingel, bass
Inon Barnatan, harpsichord

1.20pm
Brahms: Sonata for Two Pianos in F minor, op. 34b
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Tamara Stefanovich, piano

Ole Bull: Cantabile Doloroso and Rondo Giocoso
Eldbjørg Hemsing, violin
Members of the Oslo and Vertavo String Quartets

2.15pm
Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces
Latvia State Chorus
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, arranged for harp and orchestra
Xavier de Maistre, harp
Camerata Bern
Antje Weithaas, conductor

3.15pm
Vierne: Piano Quintet, op. 42 ('In memory of my son Jacques')
Philippe Cassard, piano
Danish Quartet

4.00pm
Rachmaninov, arr Respighi: Five Etudes-Tableaux
La Mer et les mouettes in A minor op. 39/2
La Foire op. 33/4
Marche funèbre in C minor op. 39/7
Le Chaperon rouge et le loup in A minor op. 39/6
Marche in D op. 39/9
National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia
Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

Rigel: The Exodus from Egypt (oratorio)
Andreas Wolf, bass-baritone (Moses, Second Israelite Man)
Eugénie Warnier, soprano (An Israelite Woman)
Camille Merckx, contralto (Second Israelite Woman)
Matthias Vidal, tenor (First Israelite Man)
Les Eléments Chorus
Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Jérémie Rhorer, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond

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.

Penny Gore presents a series centring on 2010's summer festivals in Europe and beyond

Penny Gore presents a series centring on 2010's summer festivals that took place across Europe and beyond. Plus a focus on Brahms music, with a piece of his each day, and choral works

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