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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: Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond

Afternoon Concert: Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond: Episode 3

Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond

Episode 3

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

Music from 2010's summer festivals, by Elgar, Part, Brahms, Schumann, Bach and Telemann.

Penny Gore with music from 2010's summer festivals. Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor. Part: Adam's Lament. Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2. Plus music by Schumann, Bach and Telemann.

Emanuel Ax is the piano soloist in Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto, and there's Choral music from Estonian Arvo Pärt - his Berlin Mass - as well as a Bach Solo Cello Suite from an exciting young German cellist, Julian Steckel. As well as Elgar from Aspen, Colorado and Telemann from Portugal.

Presented by Penny Gore

Schumann: Overture to "Scenes from Goethe's Faust"
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Nott, conductor

Elgar: Violin Sonata in E minor op. 82
James Ehnes, violin
Andrew Armstrong, piano

Pärt: Adam's Lament
Latvian Radio Chorus
Stockholm Sinfonietta
Tönu Kaljuste, conductor

2.00pm
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat op. 83
Emanuel Ax, piano
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Marek Janowski, conductor

Schumann: Fantasiestück for Cello and Piano op. 73/1 
Julian Steckel, cello
Emanuel Ax, piano

J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV 1009
Julian Steckel, cello

3.20pm
Pärt: Berliner Messe
Latvian Radio Chorus
Stockholm Sinfonietta
Tönu Kaljuste, conductor

Telemann: Overture burlesque in B flat
Atalanta Fugiens Ensemble
Vanni Moretto, 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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