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Summer-night Concert from Vienna

Katie Derham

Henning Kasten

Semyon Bychkov

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Katia Labeque

Marielle Labeque

Summer Night Concert from Vienna: 2016

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Summer Night Concert from Vienna

19/06/2016

2016

BBC Four - Summer Night Concert from Vienna, 2016

With the music of Bizet, Berlioz, Poulenc, Ravel, Offenbach and Johann Strauss Junior.

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, under conductor Semyon Bychkov, performs music from Bizet, Berlioz, Poulenc, Ravel, Offenbach and Johann Strauss Junior.

Katie Derham introduces this year's traditional spectacular concert from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the gardens of Schonbrunn Palace. There's a distinctly French flavour to the evening with music from Bizet, Berlioz, Poulenc and Ravel, and a special appearance from the world-renowned French piano duo the Labeque sisters. The concert is conducted for the first time by Semyon Bychkov who, though Russian-born, is an honorary Frenchman on account of his being married to Marielle Labeque.

This year's concert features such musical favourites as Ravel's exuberant Bolero and his ravishing Daphnis and Chloe. There is also a chance to dance along to the can-can from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld plus, of course, the traditional end to the concert, Johann Strauss Junior's romantic waltz Wiener Blut. It wouldn't be a summer's night in Vienna without it!

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Spectacular summer-night concerts from the grounds of the Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna.

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