Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: Renaud Capuçon performs Bach, Mendelssohn and Pärt

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Renaud Capuçon performs Bach, Mendelssohn and Pärt

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Renaud Capuçon performs Bach, Mendelssohn and Pärt

Renaud Capuçon plays two concertos by Bach and conducts Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony.

Renaud Capuçon plays two violin concertos by Bach and conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Mendelssohn's dashing 'Italian' Symphony.

Renaud Capuçon plays concertos by Bach and conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Mendelssohn's dashing 'Italian' Symphony.

Presented by Penny Gore

French violinist Renaud Capuçon leads the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra as soloist in two of Bach's sublime violin concertos and then swaps bow for baton in music by Arvo Pärt and the fourth of Felix Mendelssohn's five symphonies. Finn Hannu Lintu leads the orchestra in Sibelius and Nielsen, and there's more early music from the International Baroque Music Days festival in Melk, Austria.

2.00pm
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Renaud Capuçon, violin/conductor

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor ('From the New World')
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Oksana Lyniv, conductor

3.00pm
Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E
Arvo Pärt: Tabula rasa
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A ('Italian')
Francois Sochard, violin (Pärt)
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Renaud Capuçon, conductor, violin

Vivaldi: Lute Concerto in D
Miguel Rincon, lute	 
Zefiro Ensemble
Alfredo Bernardini, conductor

Debussy: La mer
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

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