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Afternoon Concert

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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

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Afternoon on 3: Music from Austria

Afternoon Concert: Music from Austria: Episode 2

Episode 2

Music from Austria

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Music from Austria, Episode 2

John Shea presents music by Haydn, Bach, Mozart and Dvorak.

John Shea presents music from Austrian performers. Haydn: Symphony No 8. Bach: Toccata and Fugue, BWV565. Mozart: Twelve Variations, K500. Dvorak: Serenade in D minor, Op 44.

John Shea presents some of Austria's finest musicians - the Vienna Boys' Choir sings a Haydn motet and Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the period instruments of his Concentus Musicus in an early symphony by Haydn and a starry line up of soloists in a masterful cantata by J.S. Bach 

Haydn Symphony No. 8 in G, Hob. I/8 'Le soir'
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) 

approx 2.25
Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BMV 565 
Gunther Rost (organ)

approx 2.35
Bach Cantata: Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal in das Reich Gottes eingehen, BWV 146
Genia Kühmeier (soprano) 
Bernarda Fink (contralto) 
Kurt Streit (tenor) 
Matthias Goerne (bass) 
Concentus Musicus, Vienna, 
Arnold Schoenberg Chorus
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) 

approx 3.05pm
Mozart Twelve Variations on an Allegretto in B flat, K. 500 
Robert Levin (Mozart's fortepiano)

approx 3.10pm
Mozart Three Piano Trio Movements, K. 442 
Completed Robert Levin (European Première) 
Allegro in D minor 
Tempo di Menuetto in G 
Allegro in D 
Robert Levin (Mozart's fortepiano), 
Frank Stadler (Mozart's violin) 
Soloist: Peter Sigl ('cello)

approx 3.25pm
Haydn The Storm, Hob. XXIVa:8, madrigal 
Vienna Boy's Choir, The Prague Chamber Orchestra, Aleksandar Markovic (conductor)


approx 4.00pm
Dvorák Serenade in D minor, op. 44 
Vienna Virtuosi.

Afternoon Concert: Music from Austria

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.

John Shea presents a series featuring performances given by musicians from Austria

John Shea presents a series of programmes featuring performances given by some of Austria's leading musicians

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