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The best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

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Radio 3 in Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2015

Radio 3 in Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2015: Episode 3: Budapest Festival Orchestra - Mozart

Philharmonia Orchestra - Ravel, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky

Episode 3

Episode 3: Budapest Festival Orchestra - Mozart

Edinburgh International Festival 2015

Budapest Festival Orchestra - Mozart

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Budapest Festival Chorus and Edinburgh Festival Chorus in Mozart: Symphony No 38; Requiem.

Performance by the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer, with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and leading soloists. Mozart: Symphony No 38 (Prague); Requiem.

Another visit to the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival and another choral masterpiece showcasing the Edinburgh Festival Chorus as it celebrates its 50th year. Joining the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a quartet of world-renowned soloists in a performance of Mozart's final work, his Requiem.
The energetic Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer also directs the orchestra in Mozart's sprightly Symphony No. 38, first performed in 1787 in Prague - that city lending the work its nickname.

Presented by Donald Macleod
Recorded at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Mozart: Symphony No. 38, 'Prague'
Mozart: Requiem

Miah Persson (soprano)
Barbara Kozelj (mezzo-soprano)
Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)
Konstantin Wolff (bass)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus (chorus master Christopher Bell)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer (conductor).

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.

Music performed in the Usher Hall as part of the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival

A series of specially recorded programmes from the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, featuring music performed in the Usher Hall

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