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29/05/2008

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007: Pyatt/McCawley perform Poulenc's Elegie for horn and piano; Big Noises from Down Under: Brahms: Symphony No 2.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2007:

A performance given by David Pyatt and Leon McCawley at the 2007 Edinburgh International festival. It was a tribute to the great horn player Dennis Brain, in whose memory Poulenc composed his Elegie for horn and piano following Brain's premature death in 1957.

Beethoven: Horn Sonata in F, Op 17
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op 70; Three Fantasiestucke, Op 111
Poulenc: Elegie for horn and piano
Hindemith: Sonata for horn and piano in F
Chopin: Fantasie in F minor, Op 49
Dukas: Villanelle

David Pyatt (horn)
Leon McCawley (piano)

Big Noises from Down Under:

Series of orchestral, chamber and choral performances given in Australia and New Zealand, featuring more music from Brett Dean, one of Australia's leading contemporary composers, as well as Brahms and Tchaikovsky from Auckland.

Schoenberg: Notturno for violin and strings
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young (conductor)

Brett Dean: Viola Concerto
Brett Dean (viola)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young (conductor)

Francaix: Clarinet Quintet
Catherine McCorkill (clarinet)
Dene Olding, Dimity Hall (violin)
Irina Morozova (viola)
Julian Smiles (cello)

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Bundit Ungrangsee (conductor)

Rachmaninov: Vocalise
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

Brahms: Symphony No 2
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Bamert (conductor).

4 hours

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Thu 29 May 2008 13:00

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  • Thu 29 May 2008 13:00