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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

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: Simon Rattle and Friends

Afternoon Concert: Simon Rattle and Friends: Episode 2

Simon Rattle and Friends

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Simon Rattle and Friends, Episode 2

Louise Fryer presents music by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak and Debussy.

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra performs music by Beethoven and Mozart. Plus the Berlin Philharmonic in Haydn: Symphony No 95 and Dvorak: Carnival Overture.

Today's performances by the week's featured conductor and orchestra, the top pairing of Simon Rattle and his Berlin Philharmonic, are complemented by a concert conducted at last year's Lucerne Festival by Rattle's equally distinguished predecessor in Berlin, Claudio Abbado. Abbado and his acclaimed Lucerne Festival Orchestra play a Beethovenian hymn to freedom - Egmont - and Mozart's final great masterpiece, his Requiem. Rattle conducts his Berliners in Haydn and Ravel and lets his hair down in Dvorak. 
Presented by Louise Fryer.

Beethoven: Egmont - complete incidental music
Juliane Banse (soprano),
Bruno Ganz (narrator),
Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Conductor Claudio Abbado.
2.30pm
Mozart, ed. Franz Beyer and Robert Levin: Requiem
Anna Prohaska (soprano),
Sara Mingardo (contralto),
Maximilian Schmitt (tenor),
René Pape (bass),
Bavarian Radio Chorus,
Swedish Radio Chorus,
Lucerne Festival Orchestra,
Conductor Claudio Abbado.

3.25pm
Haydn: Symphony no. 95 in C minor
3.45pm
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
3.55pm
Debussy Jeux, poème dansé pour orchestre.

Afternoon Concert: Simon Rattle and Friends

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 concerts featuring the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Simon Rattle

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes featuring concerts conducted around central Europe by Simon Rattle, with the orchestra of which he is chief conductor, the Berlin Philharmonic

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