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European Summer Festivals - Week 2, Thursday

Ian Skelly presents recordings from two German festivals, including music by Walton in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Haydn in Würzburg.

Ian Skelly presents more recordings from European festivals. Today's focus is on two German festivals, with Nils Mönkemeyer playing Walton's Viola Concerto in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Plus there's Haydn in Würzburg, Zelenka in Fribourg Switzerland, and more music from the Prague Spring festival.

And we hear another piece by a winner of 2019 BBC Young Composer.

Including:

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
Marco Hertenstein: Festspiel Overture, for viola and orchestra
Walton: Viola Concerto
Haydn: Symphony No. 99 in E flat, Hob. I:99 ('London')
Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)

International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg
Tuma: Stabat Mater
Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704, Václav Luks (conductor)

Prague Spring
Sibelius: En Saga, op. 9
Dvořák: A Hero’s Song, op. 111
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, František Macek (conductor)

3 hours, 1 minute

Last on

Thu 5 Aug 202114:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Marco Hertenstein

    Festspiel Overture, for viola and orchestra

    Performer: Nils Mönkemeyer. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachiana brasileira no.5

    Singer: Adriana González. Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

  • František Ignác Tuma

    Stabat Mater

    Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Choir: Collegium Vocale 1704. Conductor: Václav Luks.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Cum sancto spiritu (from Missa omnium sanctorum)

    Ensemble: Collegium 1704. Choir: Collegium Vocale 1704. Conductor: Václav Luks.

  • Jean Sibelius

    En Saga Op.9

    Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: František Macek.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Heroic song - symphonic poem Op.111

    Orchestra: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: František Macek.

  • William Walton

    Viola Concerto

    Performer: Nils Mönkemeyer. Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite no. 2 in D minor BWV.1008 i Sarabande

    Performer: Nils Mönkemeyer.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 99 in E flat major H.1.99

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio in B flat, K. 411

    Ensemble: Vienna Clarinet Connection.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Excerpts from 'Orlando Paladino, Hob. Ia:16'

    Singer: Julian Prégardien. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Stefan Gottfried.

  • Alexandre Tansman

    Pièce en forme de Passacaille

    Performer: Thibaut Garcia.
    • ERATO.

Broadcast

  • Thu 5 Aug 202114:00
    BBC Radio 3