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Afternoon Concert: Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond: Episode 4

Episode 4

Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond, Episode 4

Music from 2010's summer festivals, from Vivaldi, Brahms, Smetana and Rachmaninov.

Penny Gore presents music from 2010's summer festivals. Vivaldi: Autumn (The Four Seasons). Brahms: String Quartet No 2. Smetana: The Kiss. Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor.

At 2pm today we are off to Wexford in Ireland for Smetana's 2 Act Comic Opera - The Kiss, and before then we are at festivals in Iceland and in Scotland. After the opera however, we cross the globe to South Korea's great Mountains Music Festival, before ending up closer to home in Smetana's home town - Prague at last summer's Early Music Festival there with music by Biber.

Vivaldi: Autumn from The Four Seasons, op. 8/3
Philip Setzer, violin
Daniel Ching, violin
Sandy Yamamoto, violin
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele, cello
Scott Pingel, bass
Inon Barnatan, harpsichord

Brahms: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 51/2 
Belcea Quartet
Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde:
Canzon a 2 tenori, 
Balletti e Gagliarda a 2 
Vestiva i Colli, basso & soprano passeggiato
S. Arnbjörg Stefánsdóttir, piccolo cello
Mathurin Matharel, bass violin
Brice Sailly, harpsichord

2pm
Smetana: The Kiss (folk opera in two acts after a story by Karolina Svetlá) 
Paloucky, a peasant.......................Jirí Pribyl, bass-baritone
Vendulka, his daughter............Pumeza Matshikiza, soprano
Lukas, a young widower.........................Peter Berger, tenor
Tomes, brother-in-law of Lukas.......Pavel Baransky, baritone 
Martinka, Vendulka's old aunt......Eliska Weissova, contralto
Matous, an old smuggler....................Bradley Smoak, bass
Barce, a servant girl................Ekaterina Bakanova, soprano
Strazník...........................................Robert Gardnier, tenor
Wexford Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, 
Jaroslav Kyzlink, conductor

3.55pm
Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G minor, op. 19
Myung-Wha Chung, cello
Sunwook Kim, piano
Biber: 
Partita No. 1 in D minor for Two Violins and Basso Continuo from 'Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa'
Harmonie Universelle

Shostakovich: Waltz for piano, clarinet & flute
Leto Ensemble.

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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