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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

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Afternoon Concert: Afternoon on 3: Episode 1

Afternoon on 3

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Afternoon on 3, Episode 1

Music from Swiss ensembles: Mahler, Mozart, Haydn, Part, Wagner and Sibelius.

Music from Swiss ensembles. Mahler: Totenfeier. Mozart: Horn Concerto No 2. Haydn: Symphony No 91. Part: Symphony No 3. Wagner: Wesendonck -Lieder. Sibelius: Symphony No 1.

Katie Derham begins a week exploring the wide-ranging repertoire of two of Switzerland's most distinguished ensembles: the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. The recordings, made live in concert at some of Switzerland's finest concert halls, today feature Mahler's Totenfeier which became the first movement of his Second Symphony, plus symphonies by Haydn, Sibelius and Arvo Pärt. Also, Czech horn virtuoso (and principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic) Radek Baborak plays Mozart and international opera star Deborah Voigt sings Wagner.

Mahler: Totenfeier
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Neeme Järvi (conductor)

2.25 pm
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat, K. 417
Radek Baborak (horn)
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Eivind Gullberg Jensen, conductor

Haydn: Symphony No 91 in E flat
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Heinrich Schiff (conductor)

3.05 pm
Arvo Pärt: Symphony No. 3

Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
Deborah Voigt, soprano

3.50 pm
Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Neeme Järvi (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Afternoon on 3

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Performances by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

Katie Derham presents programmes exploring the wide-ranging repertoire of two of Switzerland's most distinguished ensembles: the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

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