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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: Great Music Festivals of 2011

Afternoon Concert: Great Music Festivals of 2011: Episode 3

Great Music Festivals of 2011

Episode 3

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Great Music Festivals of 2011, Episode 3

Music from 2011's continental festivals, by Bruckner and Mozart.

Music from 2011's continental festivals. Featuring Bruckner's Symphony No 5 in B flat performed at the Lucerne Festival and Mozart's Ave verum corpus from Salzburg Mozart Week.

Great Music Festivals of 2011. 
Louise Fryer this week presents highlights from some of 2011's top continental festivals. Today there's the chance to hear Claudio Abbado's hand-picked Lucerne Festival Orchestra on home soil in a magisterial performance which had the critics searching for superlatives: 'peerless,' wrote one and another declared that 'this was one of the concerts of the century.' 

Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B flat 
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Mozart Ave verum corpus
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
(recorded at Salzburg Mozart Week).

Afternoon Concert: Great Music Festivals of 2011

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.

Louise Fryer presents highlights from some of 2011's top continental festivals

Louise Fryer presents highlights from some of 2011's top continental festivals, including Salzburg, Lucerne, Berlin, Schwetzingen and Utrecht

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