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Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon on 3: 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festival Highlights

Afternoon Concert: 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festival Highlights: Episode 4

Episode 4

2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festival Highlights

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festival Highlights, Episode 4

Brahms's Serenade No 1, the 1927 version of Varese's Ameriques and Mahler's Symphony No 5.

Featuring the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in Brahms's Serenade No 1 and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

Catriona Young rounds off a week of highlights from the 2015 Verbier and Lucerne Festivals. Today's programme features the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in Brahms' Serenade No 1 and ends with Mahler's mighty 5th Symphony from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Andris Nelsons.

2.00pm
Brahms
Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
Truls Mørk

2.45pm
Varèse
Amériques, second version (1927) 
Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra
Pablo Heras-Casado

3.07pm
Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Andris Nelsons.

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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