This week's concert comes via RAI Radio 3 in Rome with the RAI Radio Symphony conducted by Andrej Boreyko and featuring legendary pianist Martha Argerich. It's a rather short program. The first half (top player) opens with Cesar Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit, followed by the Ravel Piano Concerto featuring Martha Argerich. This concert was recorded on February 9, 2009. The second half (the player down there) also features the RAI Symphony, this time conducted by Juraj Valchua performing Anton Webern: Im Sommerwind and was recorded on November 27, 2008.

Great concert, no matter how you slice it.

Announcements are in Italian and here's what you'll be listening to:
STAGIONE 2008-2009 DELL'ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE DELLA RAI
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai
pianoforte, Martha Argerich
direttore, Andrej Boreyko
César Franck
Le chasseur maudit, poema sinfonico dalla ballata di Gottfried August Bürger
- Andantino, quasi allegretto - Poco più animato - Molto lento - Più animato - Allegro
molto, quasi presto
Maurice Ravel
Concerto in sol per pianoforte e orchestra
- Allegramente
- Adagio assai
- Presto
Registrato all'Auditorium Rai "Arturo Toscanini" di Torino il 19 febbraio 2009
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Part 2 - STAGIONE 2008-2009 DELL'ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE DELLA RAI
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai
direttore, Juraj Valčuha
Anton Webern
Im Sommerwind, idillio per grande orchestra
Registrato all'Auditorium Rai "Arturo Toscanini" di Torino il 27 novembre 2008

Enjoy.

(Julia Fischer - dazzling concert halls all over Europe)

This week's concert comes from North German Radio (via Radio France). The North German Radio Symphony, conducted by Michael Sanderling in a program of music by Franck, Prokofiev and Shostakovitch. Violinist Julia Fischer joins the orchestra in a performance of the Prokofiev 1st Violin Concerto.

The concert was recorded live in Hanover on December 11, 2009. It's complete and in two parts - the top player features - Franck: Les Eolides, the Prokofiev violin concerto and the bottom player features the Shostakovitch Symphony Number 15.

Here is the program rundown from Radio France Musique:

Concert donné le 11 décembre 2009 au Grand Studio de NDR à Hanovre

César Franck (1822-1890)
Les Eolides, Fwv.43, poème symphonique

Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Concerto N°1 en Ré majeur Op.19

Dimitri Chostakovitch (1906-1975)
Symphonie N°15 en La majeur Op.141

Julia Fischer, Violon
Orchestre philharmonique de la Radio NDR
Michael Sanderling, Direction

Announcements are in French, but edited as always.