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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 5

Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond

Episode 5

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Summer Festivals - Europe and Beyond, Episode 5

Music from 2010's summer festivals, from Vivaldi, Haydn, Brahms and Mendelssohn.

Penny Gore with music from 2010's summer festivals. Vivaldi: Winter (4 Seasons). Haydn: Piano Sonata in A flat, H XVI 43. Mendelssohn: Elijah. There and Bach again (medley).

The main work in today's programme is Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah" with an all-star cast, including Julia Kleiter, Bernarda Fink, Thomas Quasthoff and Michael Schade, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra all conducted by Daniel Harding at last summer's Baltic Sea Festival. And to round off this week's programmes an irresistable medley of every famous violin concerto in under 10 minutes.

Vivaldi: Winter from The Four Seasons, op. 8/4
Ian Swensen, violin
Daniel Ching, violin
Sandy Yamamoto, violin
John Largess, viola
Joshua Gindele, cello
Scott Pingel, bass 
Inon Barnatan, harpsichord

Haydn: Piano Sonata in A flat Hob. XVI:43
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

1.20pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor op. 98
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra 
Jonathan Nott, conductor

Fux: Turcaria
Armonico Tributo

2.15pm
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Julia Kleiter, soprano
Bernarda Fink, contralto
Michael Schade, tenor 
Thomas Quasthoff, baritone
Markus Althanns, boy soprano
Swedish Radio Chorus
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor

There and Bach again..
(The Ultimate Violin Concerto Medley!)
Members of the Oslo and Vertavo String Quartets.

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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