Lucerne Festival 2016 [Afternoon Concert]

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0120161024Jonathan Swain presents a week of concerts recorded at this year's Lucerne Festival, including celebrations for Bernard Haitink's 50 years at the Festival. Today's selection includes a concert given by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk with conductor James Gaffigan, and by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Emmanuelle Ham.

2pm:

Mendelssohn: Overture - Die sch怀ne Melusine, Op 32

James Gaffigan, conductor

2.10pm:

Berlioz: La Mort de Cl退opatre

Ekatarina Semenchuk, mezzo

2.30pm

Ferruccio Busoni: Turandot Suite, Op 41

2.55pm

Rossini: Giovanna d'Arco

3.10pm

Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome)

3.25

Handel: Water Music Suite in F, HWV 348

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

3.45

Handel: Concerto Grosso in G major, Op 6 no 1

4pm

Handel: Water Music Suite in G, HWV 350

Jonathan Swain presents music by Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Busoni, Rossini, Strauss and Handel

0220161025Jonathan Swain presents a week of concerts recorded at the 2016 Lucerne Festival, and today's selection includes a concert with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe celebrating conductor Bernard Haitink's 50 years at the Festival, and more from the concert by the Vienna Philharmonic with soprano Sandrine Piau, conducted by Emmanuelle Ham.

2pm

Dvorak: The Noon Witch, Op. 108

2.15pm

Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104

Alisa Weilerstein, cello

2.55pm

Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95

3.40pm

Handel: Il delirio amoroso HWV 99

Sandrine Piau, soprano

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe in music by Dvorak and the Vienna Philharmonic in Handel.

0320161026Jonathan Swain presents a week of concerts recorded at the 2016 Lucerne Festival, and today's concert celebrates the 50th concert given by Bernard Haitink at the Festival, with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. The concert featured one work: Bruckner's majesterial Eighth Symphony.

2pm

Bruckner: Symphony No 8 in C minor

Bernard Haitink.

Bernard Haitink conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No 8.

0420161028Jonathan Swain presents a week of concerts from this year's Lucerne Festival, concluding today with a concert given by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Yannick N退zet-S退guin, and highlights from a concert given by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Barbara Hannigan.

2pm

Alma Mahler (orch. Matthews): 7 Lieder

Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano

Yannick N退zet-S退guin, conductor

2.25

Mahler (compl. Deryck Cooke): Symphony No 10

3.40pm

Haydn: Symphony No 86 in D

Barbara Hannigan, conductor

4pm

Gershwin: Suite from 'Girl Crazy

Barbara Hannigan, soprano & conductor.

Music from the 2016 Lucerne Festival, by Alma Mahler, Mahler, Haydn and Gershwin.