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Summer Festivals

Peteris Vasks, Mozart and Bizet from 2019 festivals in Lithuania, Romania, Switzerland and Denmark, and from the Lugano Festival archive, Alexander Gurning plays more Chopin.

Tom McKinney ends his week devoted to recordings from European Summer Festivals held in 2019.

Today鈥檚 programme begins at the Vilnius Festival, with music by Baltic composers Peeter V盲hi and Peteris Vasks alongside a work by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli. Then there鈥檚 more from the 2019 Magic Summer Festival in Bucharest, as the Romanian Sinfonietta Orchestra play鈥檚 Mozart鈥檚 Symphony No.31. There鈥檚 also another visit to the 2019 Gstaad Menuhin Festival with a performance of Bizet鈥檚 Symphony in C from the Basel Chamber Orchestra; and we end with a final performance from the opera gala held at the Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen.

Tom鈥檚 final highlight from the archive of the Lugano Festival in 2003 features pianist Alexander Gurning playing Chopin鈥檚 Rondo a la Krakowiak with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky.

2pm
Peeter V盲hi: Concerto for Birbyn臈 and Chamber Orchestra
Giya Kancheli 鈥 Angels of Sorrow
Peteris Vasks 鈥 Da pacem, Domine

Vytautas Kiminius (birbyn臈)
Dalia Kuznecovait茅 (violin)
Elena Daunyt臈 (cello)
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Jauna Muzika Vilnius Municipal Chorus
Adrija 膷epait臈 (conductor)

approx. 3.10pm
Chopin - Rondo a la Krakowiak in F, Op.14

Alexander Gurning (piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Alexander Rabinowitch-Barakovsky (conductor)

approx. 3.25pm
Mozart 鈥 Symphony No.31 in D, K.297 鈥淧aris鈥

Romanian Sinfonietta Orchestra
Horia Andreescu (conductor)

approx. 4.15pm
Bizet 鈥 Ton Coeur n鈥檃 pas compris le mien [Les Pecheurs de Perles]

Nino Machaidze (soprano)
Levy Sekgapane (tenor)
Tivoli Copenhagen Phil
Patrick Lange (conductor)

2 hours, 31 minutes

Last on

Fri 31 Jul 2020 14:00

Music Played

  • Peeter V盲hi

    Concerto for birbyne and orchestra

    Performer: Vytautas Kiminius. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Adrija 膶epait臈.
  • Giya Kancheli

    Angels of sorrow

    Performer: Dalia Kuznecovait茅. Performer: Elena Daunyt臈. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Choir: Jauna Muzika Vilnius Municipal Chorus. Conductor: Adrija 膶epait臈.
  • Peteris Vasks

    Da pacem, Domine

    Choir: Jauna Muzika Vilnius Municipal Chorus. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Adrija 膶epait臈.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Krakowiak - rondo in F major Op.14

    Performer: Alexander Gurning. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 31 in D major K.297 (Paris)

    Orchestra: Romanian Sinfonietta Orchestra. Conductor: Horia Andreescu.
  • Georges Bizet

    Symphony in C major

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Pierre Bleuse.
  • Georges Bizet

    Les Pecheurs de perles: Ton coeur n'a pas compris

    Singer: Nino Machaidze. Singer: Levy Sekgapane. Orchestra: Tivoli Copenhagen Philharmonic. Conductor: Patrick Lange.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Parigi o cara [La Traviata]

    Singer: Nino Machaidze. Singer: Levy Sekgapane. Orchestra: Tivoli Copenhagen Philharmonic. Conductor: Patrick Lange.

Broadcast

  • Fri 31 Jul 2020 14:00