Afternoon on 3 - European Summer Festivals 2007 - Episode 6

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) Ruggero Maghini Philharmonic Chorus Turin RAI National Symphony Orchestra Wayne Marshall (conductor) Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor Yuri Martynov (piano) New Russian State Symphony Orchestra Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor) Mahler: Symphony No 7 Rotterdam Philharmonic Valery Gergiev (conductor).