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Afternoon on 3: 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festival Highlights

Afternoon Concert: 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festival Highlights: Episode 1

Episode 1

2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festival Highlights

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festival Highlights, Episode 1

The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra perform works by Haydn, Bartok and Beethoven.

The Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra perform works by Haydn, Bartok and Beethoven. Plus Bach's Sarabande and Handel's Concerto grosso.

Catriona Young presents a week of highlights from the 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festivals. Today's programme features the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in works by Haydn, Bartok and Beethoven; and they are joined by Truls Mork for a performance of Schumann's Cello Concerto. The afternoon ends with Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin Suite from the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado.

2.00pm
Haydn
Symphony No. 94 in G, Hob. I:94 ('Surprise')
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Gábor Takács-Nagy

2.21pm
Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E, Sz. 119
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
András Schiff, piano
Gábor Takács-Nagy

2.46pm
Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F, op. 68 ('Pastoral')
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Gábor Takács-Nagy

3.25pm
Schumann
Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Truls Mørk, cello and musical direction

3.49pm
J.S. Bach
Sarabande, from Cello Suite No. 2 in in D minor, BWV 1008
Truls Mørk, cello

3.53pm
Handel
Concerto Grosso in B flat, op. 3/2
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Truls Mørk, musical direction

4.05pm
Bartók
The Miraculous Mandarin, suite
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado.

Afternoon Concert: 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festival Highlights

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.

Catriona Young presents highlights from the 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festivals.

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