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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

Afternoon on 3: European Festivals Selection

Afternoon Concert: European Festivals Selection: Episode 3

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Episode 3

European Festivals Selection

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, European Festivals Selection, Episode 3

Le Concert Spirituel play Vivaldi. Plus Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven.

Music from European festivals. With Le Concert Spirituel in Vivaldi's Lauda Jerusalem, plus the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven: Coriolan Overture; Symphony No 9.

Catriona Young presents a concert from the European Festivals, with Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Philippe Herreweghe conducts soloists, chorus & the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

2pm:
Vivaldi: Lauda Jerusalem, RV 609
Le Concert Spirituel
Director Hervé Niquet

2.05pm:
Beethoven: Coriolan, op. 62, overture in C minor 
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra 
Conductor Philippe Herreweghe

2.15pm:
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 ('Choral') 
Ilse Eerens (soprano)
Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano)
Robin Trischler (tenor)
Thomas E. Bauer (bass)
Coral Andra Mari 
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra 
Conductor Philippe Herreweghe.

Afternoon Concert: European Festivals Selection

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 concert highlights from a selection of European festivals

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