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Summer Festivals

Highlights from Summer Festivals in Switzerland and Germany featuring music by Poulenc and Bruckner

Tom McKinney continues a week of highlights from summer festivals around Europe. We start today in Lugano with Martha Argerich playing Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, which was influenced by Mozart and the Balinese gamelan, with Belgian pianist Alexander Gurning at the famous Swiss mountain resort in 2007. Then we head to Berlin with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra for a performance of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony recorded last year. After a catastrophically terrible reaction to his third symphony in 1877 Bruckner suffered a major crisis of confidence, but he persevered and considered this work to be his 'boldest symphony'. Today it's recognised as one of his most original pieces and contains some of his most beautiful and arresting music.

Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, FP 61
Martha Argerich, piano
Alexander Gurning, piano
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
Erasmo Capilla, conductor

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A, WAB 106
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor

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Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Alexander Gurning. Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Conductor: Erasmo Capilla.

  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony no 6 in A

    Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.

  • George Gershwin

    Love walked in

    Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Saint-Sa毛ns/Ravel/Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Wed 9 Sep 2020 14:00
    91热爆 Radio 3