Afternoon on 3 - European Summer Festivals 2007 - Episode 8

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) RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet Jean-Féry Rebel: Les élémens 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) Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Leif Segerstam (conductor) John Kinsella: Prelude and Toccata RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet Ockeghem: Mort, tu as navré, Miserere (Déploration sur la mort de Binchois) Graindelavoix Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1 Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Leif Segerstam (conductor) Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat Paul Lewis (piano) Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra Pedro Halffter (conductor).