European Summer Festivals 2007 [Afternoon Concert]

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20071022

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Verity Sharp introduces a recital in which Radio 3 New Generation Artist cellist Danjulo Ishizaka is joined by pianist Markus Schirmer in two central works of the cello repertoire.

Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 5, No 2

Brahms: Cello Sonata in E, Op 38

2.00pm Summer Festivals

The first week of highlights from Festivals held around Europe this summer, starting with a performance of Beethoven's 5th Symphony by musicians from all over the continent under the banner of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

Plus Stravinsky from Finland's Avanti! Festival, Reger from the Lahti Organ Festival, Messiaen from the Gergiev Festival, Schubert's Quartetsatz from the Schubertiade, Dvorak from Verbrier Festival and the Latvian Radio Choir singing Ligeti at the Baltic Sea Festival.

Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Stravinsky: 3 Japanese Lyrics

Rosemary Hardy (soprano)

Reger: Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H

David Goode (organ)

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F

Dresden Staatskapelle

Kai Vogler (conductor/violin)

Schubert: String Quartet in C minor (Quartettsatz)

Artemis Quartet

Messiaen: L'Ascension

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Ligeti: Lux aeterna

Latvian Radio Chorus

Sigvards Klava (conductor)

Medtner: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor

Dmitri Makhtin (violin)

Boris Berezovsky (piano)

Dvorak: Carnival Overture

UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra

Zubin Mehta (conductor).

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, with cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and pianist Markus Schirmer

20071025

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm European Summer Festivals

Highlights from the long-established Schwetzingen Festival. In keeping with tradition, Schwetzingen Festival put on a production of a rediscovered opera, this year Legrenzi's Il Giustino performed by the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble directed by Thomas Hengelbrock.

Giovanni Legrenzi: Il Giustino (Opera in 3 acts by Nicol Beregan)

Thomas Hengelbrock (director)

Beethoven: Variations in E flat on Be Maennern, welche Liebe fuehlen from The Magic Flute

Christian Poltera (cello)

Kathryn Stott (piano)

Sibelius: Rakastava (Suite for strings, timpani and triangle, Op 14)

Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone/percussion)

Kremerata Baltica

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for violin and viola, K364

Mila Georgieva (violin)

Gunter Teuffel (viola)

SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart

Christopher Hogwood (conductor).

With the Lunchtime Concert: the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble perform Legrenzi's Il Giustino.

20071026

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

1.00pm European Summer Festivals

This first week of highlights from the European Summer Festivals concludes with performances from Zurich to Iceland, Utrecht to Saint-Michel-en-Thierache, and Finland's Avanti! Festival to the Radovljica Festival in Slovenia. Plus from the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Christoph von Dohnanyi's performance with the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Bruckner's monumental Fourth Symphony.

Lindberg: Marea

Avanti! Orchestra

Tuomas Hannikainen (conductor)

Sermisy: Vox in Ramu audita est (Motet a 4); Voulant amour soubs parler gratieux (chanson a 4, on a text by Francois I)

Huelgas Ensemble

Paul van Nevel (director)

Brahms: Intermezzo No 4 in E; Rhapsody No 2, Op 79

Vovka Stefan Ashkenazy (piano)

Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor)

Mozart: Flute Quartet in C, K285b

Emmaneul Pahud (flute)

Guy Braunstein (violin)

Ori Kam (viola)

Olaf Maninger (cello)

Holliger: Tonscherben

Tonhalle Orchestra

Heinz Holliger (conductor)

Vivaldi: Tu dormi in tante pene (Tito manlio)

Sonia Prina (soprano)

Accademia bizantina

Ottavio Dantone (conductor)

Dvorak: String Quartet in E flat, Op 51

Vermeer Quartet

Gallus: 6 works from Harmoniae Morales

Singer Pur

Haydn: String Quartet in D (The Fifths)

Mosaiques Quartet

Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic)

Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor).

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, including music by Lindberg, Sermisy, Brahms and Bartok.

20071029

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Verity Sharp introduces a recital by the brilliant international soloists who make up the Aronowitz Ensemble, members of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme. Their programme pairs Faure's first piano quintet, the result of 15 years of reworking, with a late string quintet by Dvorak - which quotes a Native American theme the composer heard during a summer holiday spent with the Czech community in Spillville, Iowa.

Faure: Piano Quintet in D minor, Op 89

Dvorak: Quintet in E flat, Op 9

2.00pm European Festivals

The second week of highlights from festivals around Europe this summer begins with a trip from Estonia (with 18,000 young performers!) to Italy. Plus the first of three late Beethoven piano sonatas this week and Valery Gergiev tackles a Mahler Symphony for the first time.

Mihkel Ludig: Dawn

Combined Estonian Youth Choruses

Kuno Areng (conductor)

Gershwin: Bess, you is my woman now (Porgy and Bess)

Porgy - Daniel Washington (baritone)

Bess - Maureen Braithwaite (soprano)

Ruggero Maghini Philharmonic Chorus

Turin RAI National Symphony Orchestra

Wayne Marshall (conductor)

Dutilleux: L'arbre des songes

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Rotterdam Philharmonic

Valery Gergiev (conductor)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 30 in E

Paul Lewis (piano)

Gershwin: It ain't necessarily so (Porgy and Bess)

Ronald Samm (tenor)

Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor

Yuri Martynov (piano)

New Russian State Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor)

Mahler: Symphony No 7

Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, with the Aronowitz Ensemble playing Faure and Dvorak.

20071030

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm European Festivals

If you like Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, you'll love Le nozze di Dorina by Baldassare Galuppi, most famous son of the small Venetian island of Burano, well known for its brightly-painted houses.

Galuppi's brightly-painted music paints this happy tale of the machinations in the Count and Countess' household as they try to marry off their orphaned chambermaid Dorina. Plus there are side-trips to festivals in Ireland and Romania.

Ravel: La valse

Oslo Philharmonic

Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

Galuppi: Le nozze di Dorina

Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano)

Giulio Mastrototaro (bass-baritone)

Joseph Cornwell (tenor)

Xenia Meijer (mezzo-soprano)

Cecile de Boever (soprano)

Matthias Vieweg (baritone)

Hans J怀rg Mammel (tenor)

Kammerakademie Potsdam

Sergio Azzolini (conductor)

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115

Johnny Teyssier (clarinet)

RTɀ Vanbrugh Quartet

Enescu: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, Op 27 (Village Suite)

Galuppi's Le nozze di Dorina, plus music from festivals in Ireland and Romania.

20071031

Presented by Louise Fryer.

1.00pm European Festivals

From Spain to Latvia via central Europe, featuring along the way Irish performers playing Irish music, Flemish performers singing Flemish polyphony in Poland, and Finnish performers playing Finnish and Polish music in Germany. Plus the continuation of our Beethoven piano sonata and Medtner piano concerto series.

Sibelius: Finlandia

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Leif Segerstam (conductor)

Stanford: String Quintet No 1 in F

Joachim Roewer (viola)

RTɀ Vanbrugh Quartet

Jean-F退ry Rebel: Les 退l退mens

Seville Baroque Orchestra

Monica Huggett (conductor)

Medtner: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor

Boris Berezovsky (piano)

New Russian State Symphony Orchestra

Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor)

Tchaikovsky: Amid the din of the ball Dawn

Inessa Galante (soprano)

Irina Dolzhenko (mezzo-soprano)

Inna Davidova (piano)

Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cantus arcticus (Concerto for birds and orchestra)

John Kinsella: Prelude and Toccata

Ockeghem: Mort, tu as navr退, Miserere (D退ploration sur la mort de Binchois)

Graindelavoix

Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat

Paul Lewis (piano)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra

Pedro Halffter (conductor).

Featuring highlights of summer festivals from Spain to Latvia via central Europe.

20071101

Presented by Louise Fryer

1.00pm European Festivals

With Janacek's opera From the House of the Dead from this summer's Aix-en-Provence Festival, directed by Patrice Ch退reau and conducted by Pierre Boulez.

Suk: Fantastic Scherzo

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Bertrand de Billy (conductor)

Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A

Martin Kas퀀k (piano)

Wihan Quartet

Novကk: In the Tatras

Zelenka: Missa votiva in E minor (excerpt)

B退n退dicte Tauran, Stanislava Mihalcovက (sopranos)

Mark退ta Cukrovက (contralto)

Tomကs Kor퀀nek (tenor)

Tomကs Krကl, Tobias Berndt (basses)

Smetana: String Quartet No 2 in D minor

Suk: Fairytale Suite (Raduz and Mahulena)

Janacek: From the House of the Dead

Goryanchikov - Olaf B䀀r (baritone)

Alyeya - Eric Stoklossa (tenor)

Filka Morozov - Stefan Margita (tenor)

Skuratov - John Mark Ainsley (tenor)

Shishkov - Gerd Grochowski (tenor)

Prison Governor - Jir퀀 Sulzenko (baritone)

Big prisoner/Nikita - Peter Straka (tenor)

Small prisoner - Vladimir Chmelo (baritone)

Elderly prisoner - Heinz Zednik (tenor)

Cook - Martin Barta (baritone)

Priest - Vratislav Kr퀀z (baritone)

Chekunov - Jan Galla (bass)

Drunken prisoner - Tomကs Krejcir퀀k (tenor)

Shapkin - Peter Hoare (tenor)

Prisoner/Kedril - Marian Pavlovic (tenor)

Prisoner/Don Juan/The Brahmin - Ales Jenis (bass)

Young prisoner - Olivier Dumait (tenor)

Prostitute - Susannah Haberfeld (mezzo-soprano)

Cherevin - Andreas Conrad (tenor)

Arnold Sch怀nberg Choir

Erwin Ortner (director)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Pierre Boulez (conductor).

Including Janacek's From the House of the Dead, from 2007's Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Episodes

Episode	First Broadcast	Comments
01	20071022	Presented by Fiona Talkington. 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Live from Wigmore Hall in London, Verity Sharp introduces a recital in which Radio 3 New Generation Artist cellist Danjulo Ishizaka is joined by pianist Markus Schirmer in two central works of the cello repertoire. Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 5, No 2 Brahms: Cello Sonata in E, Op 38 2.00pm Summer Festivals The first week of highlights from Festivals held around Europe this summer, starting with a performance of Beethoven's 5th Symphony by musicians from all over the continent under the banner of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Plus Stravinsky from Finland's Avanti! Festival, Reger from the Lahti Organ Festival, Messiaen from the Gergiev Festival, Schubert's Quartetsatz from the Schubertiade, Dvorak from Verbrier Festival and the Latvian Radio Choir singing Ligeti at the Baltic Sea Festival. Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) Stravinsky: 3 Japanese Lyrics Rosemary Hardy (soprano) Reger: Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H David Goode (organ) Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F Dresden Staatskapelle Kai Vogler (conductor/violin) Schubert: String Quartet in C minor (Quartettsatz) Artemis Quartet Messiaen: L'Ascension Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Valery Gergiev (conductor) Ligeti: Lux aeterna Latvian Radio Chorus Sigvards Klava (conductor) Medtner: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor Dmitri Makhtin (violin) Boris Berezovsky (piano) Dvorak: Carnival Overture UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra Zubin Mehta (conductor). Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, with cellist Danjulo Ishizaka and pianist Markus Schirmer
04	20071025	Presented by Fiona Talkington. 1.00pm European Summer Festivals Highlights from the long-established Schwetzingen Festival. In keeping with tradition, Schwetzingen Festival put on a production of a rediscovered opera, this year Legrenzi's Il Giustino performed by the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble directed by Thomas Hengelbrock. Giovanni Legrenzi: Il Giustino (Opera in 3 acts by Nicol Beregan) Thomas Hengelbrock (director) Beethoven: Variations in E flat on Be Maennern, welche Liebe fuehlen from The Magic Flute Christian Poltera (cello) Kathryn Stott (piano) Sibelius: Rakastava (Suite for strings, timpani and triangle, Op 14) Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone/percussion) Kremerata Baltica Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for violin and viola, K364 Mila Georgieva (violin) Gunter Teuffel (viola) SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart Christopher Hogwood (conductor). With the Lunchtime Concert: the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble perform Legrenzi's Il Giustino.
05	20071026	Presented by Fiona Talkington. 1.00pm European Summer Festivals This first week of highlights from the European Summer Festivals concludes with performances from Zurich to Iceland, Utrecht to Saint-Michel-en-Thierache, and Finland's Avanti! Festival to the Radovljica Festival in Slovenia. Plus from the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Christoph von Dohnanyi's performance with the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Bruckner's monumental Fourth Symphony. Lindberg: Marea Avanti! Orchestra Tuomas Hannikainen (conductor) Sermisy: Vox in Ramu audita est (Motet a 4); Voulant amour soubs parler gratieux (chanson a 4, on a text by Francois I) Huelgas Ensemble Paul van Nevel (director) Brahms: Intermezzo No 4 in E; Rhapsody No 2, Op 79 Vovka Stefan Ashkenazy (piano) Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor) Mozart: Flute Quartet in C, K285b Emmaneul Pahud (flute) Guy Braunstein (violin) Ori Kam (viola) Olaf Maninger (cello) Holliger: Tonscherben Tonhalle Orchestra Heinz Holliger (conductor) Vivaldi: Tu dormi in tante pene (Tito manlio) Sonia Prina (soprano) Accademia bizantina Ottavio Dantone (conductor) Dvorak: String Quartet in E flat, Op 51 Vermeer Quartet Gallus: 6 works from Harmoniae Morales Singer Pur Haydn: String Quartet in D (The Fifths) Mosaiques Quartet Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat (Romantic) Christoph von Dohnanyi (conductor). Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, including music by Lindberg, Sermisy, Brahms and Bartok.
06	20071029	Presented by Louise Fryer. 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Verity Sharp introduces a recital by the brilliant international soloists who make up the Aronowitz Ensemble, members of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme. Their programme pairs Faure's first piano quintet, the result of 15 years of reworking, with a late string quintet by Dvorak - which quotes a Native American theme the composer heard during a summer holiday spent with the Czech community in Spillville, Iowa. Faure: Piano Quintet in D minor, Op 89 Dvorak: Quintet in E flat, Op 9 2.00pm European Festivals The second week of highlights from festivals around Europe this summer begins with a trip from Estonia (with 18,000 young performers!) to Italy. Plus the first of three late Beethoven piano sonatas this week and Valery Gergiev tackles a Mahler Symphony for the first time. Mihkel Ludig: Dawn Combined Estonian Youth Choruses Kuno Areng (conductor) Gershwin: Bess, you is my woman now (Porgy and Bess) Porgy - Daniel Washington (baritone) Bess - Maureen Braithwaite (soprano) Ruggero Maghini Philharmonic Chorus Turin RAI National Symphony Orchestra Wayne Marshall (conductor) Dutilleux: L'arbre des songes Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Rotterdam Philharmonic Valery Gergiev (conductor) Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 30 in E Paul Lewis (piano) Gershwin: It ain't necessarily so (Porgy and Bess) Ronald Samm (tenor) Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor Yuri Martynov (piano) New Russian State Symphony Orchestra Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor) Mahler: Symphony No 7 Featuring the Lunchtime Concert, with the Aronowitz Ensemble playing Faure and Dvorak.
07	20071030	Presented by Louise Fryer. 1.00pm European Festivals If you like Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, you'll love Le nozze di Dorina by Baldassare Galuppi, most famous son of the small Venetian island of Burano, well known for its brightly-painted houses. Galuppi's brightly-painted music paints this happy tale of the machinations in the Count and Countess' household as they try to marry off their orphaned chambermaid Dorina. Plus there are side-trips to festivals in Ireland and Romania. Ravel: La valse Oslo Philharmonic Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor) Galuppi: Le nozze di Dorina Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano) Giulio Mastrototaro (bass-baritone) Joseph Cornwell (tenor) Xenia Meijer (mezzo-soprano) Cecile de Boever (soprano) Matthias Vieweg (baritone) Hans J怀rg Mammel (tenor) Kammerakademie Potsdam Sergio Azzolini (conductor) Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115 Johnny Teyssier (clarinet) RTɀ Vanbrugh Quartet Enescu: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, Op 27 (Village Suite) Galuppi's Le nozze di Dorina, plus music from festivals in Ireland and Romania.
08	20071031	Presented by Louise Fryer. 1.00pm European Festivals From Spain to Latvia via central Europe, featuring along the way Irish performers playing Irish music, Flemish performers singing Flemish polyphony in Poland, and Finnish performers playing Finnish and Polish music in Germany. Plus the continuation of our Beethoven piano sonata and Medtner piano concerto series. Sibelius: Finlandia Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Leif Segerstam (conductor) Stanford: String Quintet No 1 in F Joachim Roewer (viola) RTɀ Vanbrugh Quartet Jean-F退ry Rebel: Les 退l退mens Seville Baroque Orchestra Monica Huggett (conductor) Medtner: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Boris Berezovsky (piano) New Russian State Symphony Orchestra Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor) Tchaikovsky: Amid the din of the ball Dawn Inessa Galante (soprano) Irina Dolzhenko (mezzo-soprano) Inna Davidova (piano) Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cantus arcticus (Concerto for birds and orchestra) John Kinsella: Prelude and Toccata Ockeghem: Mort, tu as navr退, Miserere (D退ploration sur la mort de Binchois) Graindelavoix Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1 Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat Paul Lewis (piano) Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra Pedro Halffter (conductor). Featuring highlights of summer festivals from Spain to Latvia via central Europe.
09	20071101	Presented by Louise Fryer 1.00pm European Festivals With Janacek's opera From the House of the Dead from this summer's Aix-en-Provence Festival, directed by Patrice Ch退reau and conducted by Pierre Boulez. Suk: Fantastic Scherzo Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Bertrand de Billy (conductor) Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A Martin Kas퀀k (piano) Wihan Quartet Novကk: In the Tatras Zelenka: Missa votiva in E minor (excerpt) B退n退dicte Tauran, Stanislava Mihalcovက (sopranos) Mark退ta Cukrovက (contralto) Tomကs Kor퀀nek (tenor) Tomကs Krကl, Tobias Berndt (basses) Smetana: String Quartet No 2 in D minor Suk: Fairytale Suite (Raduz and Mahulena) Janacek: From the House of the Dead Goryanchikov - Olaf B䀀r (baritone) Alyeya - Eric Stoklossa (tenor) Filka Morozov - Stefan Margita (tenor) Skuratov - John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Shishkov - Gerd Grochowski (tenor) Prison Governor - Jir퀀 Sulzenko (baritone) Big prisoner/Nikita - Peter Straka (tenor) Small prisoner - Vladimir Chmelo (baritone) Elderly prisoner - Heinz Zednik (tenor) Cook - Martin Barta (baritone) Priest - Vratislav Kr퀀z (baritone) Chekunov - Jan Galla (bass) Drunken prisoner - Tomကs Krejcir퀀k (tenor) Shapkin - Peter Hoare (tenor) Prisoner/Kedril - Marian Pavlovic (tenor) Prisoner/Don Juan/The Brahmin - Ales Jenis (bass) Young prisoner - Olivier Dumait (tenor) Prostitute - Susannah Haberfeld (mezzo-soprano) Cherevin - Andreas Conrad (tenor) Arnold Sch怀nberg Choir Erwin Ortner (director) Mahler Chamber Orchestra Pierre Boulez (conductor). Including Janacek's From the House of the Dead, from 2007's Aix-en-Provence Festival.