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Afternoon on 3: Dutch Orchestras and Ensembles

Afternoon Concert: Dutch Orchestras and Ensembles: Episode 1

Episode 1

Dutch Orchestras and Ensembles

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Dutch Orchestras and Ensembles, Episode 1

Louise Fryer with music by Stravinsky, Gershwin, Bernstein, Mozart, Strauss and Handel.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms and Strauss: An Alpine Symphony. Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in Gershwin: An American in Paris.

Louise Fryer celebrates Dutch Orchestras and ensembles with a series of concerts given at the Concertgebouw and in Utrecht. The Royal Concertgebouw perform Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, written for the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1930, and America is also the theme for the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Gershwin and Bernstein. Plus Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio from the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival, and Bernard Haitink conducts the Royal Concertgebouw in Strauss's mighty Alpine Symphony.

2pm
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Netherlands Radio Chorus
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Gershwin: An American in Paris
Bernstein: Divertimento
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Antony Hermus (conductor)

2.55pm
Mozart: Piano Trio no.2 in E flat, K.498, 'Kegelstatt'
Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Maxim Rysanov (viola)
Roland Pöntinen (piano)

3.15pm
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, Op.64
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

4.05pm
Handel: Excerpts from Ariodante
Alisa Kosova (mezzo-soprano)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Dutch Orchestras and Ensembles

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Louise Fryer presents performances given by Dutch orchestras and ensembles

Louise Fryer presents a series of performances given by leading orchestras and ensembles based in the Netherlands

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