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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Live from Bridgewater Hall, Manchester: Episode 1: Beethoven, Nielsen

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Episode 1: Beethoven, Nielsen

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Beethoven, Nielsen

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Mark Elder conducts the Halle orchestra in music by Beethoven and Nielsen.

Live from Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Mark Elder conducts the Halle orchestra. Beethoven: Overture (The Ruins of Athens). Nielsen: Violin Concerto (soloist: Henning Kraggerud).

Live from Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Presented by Stuart Flinders

The Hallé orchestra, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, perform Nielsen's Violin Concerto with Henning Kraggerud and Beethoven's Overture the Ruins of Athens and Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony.

Beethoven: Overture - the Ruins of Athens 
Nielsen: Violin Concerto

Henning Kraggerud (violin)
Hallé 
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)


Sir Mark Elder leads The Hallé orchestra as they combine Rachmaninov's much loved and highly romantic Third Symphony with Beethoven's dramatic overture to the Ruins of Athens. They are also joined by the acclaimed Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud for Carl Nielsen's rarely heard 1911 Violin Concerto.

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Mark Elder conducts the Halle orchestra in music by Beethoven, Nielsen and Rachmaninov

Stuart Flinders presents a concert in which Mark Elder conducts the Halle orchestra in music by Beethoven, Nielsen and Rachmaninov

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