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Great Music Festivals of 2011.
Louise Fryer this week presents highlights from some of 2011's top continental festivals, including Salzburg, Lucerne, Berlin, Schwetzingen and Utrecht. The music ranges from Bruckner and Brahms to Bach and Handel from leading musicians of our time including conductors, Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Christian Thielmann and Franz Welser M枚st. Today's programme sees Bernard Haitink conducting Brahms in Lucerne and the leading harpsichordist, Lars Ulrik Mortensen directing a top flight team of soloists in Handel's first oratorio at Vienna's Resonanzen Festival.

Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

approx 2.30pm
Handel Oratorio: Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno Part 1 (Rome 1707)
Piacere.....Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Bellezza.... Maria Keohane (soprano)
Disinganno..... Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Tempo.... J枚rg D眉rm眉ller (tenor)
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord and director)

approx 3.40pm
Richard Strauss Festliches Pr盲ludium, op. 61
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

Richard Strauss Notturno, op. 44/1
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

approx 4.00pm
Schubert arr. Mahler String Quartet in D minor, D. 810 ('Death and the Maiden')
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser M枚st (conductor).