Over to Austria this week for a concert from the 2011 Carinthian Summer Festival featuring Clarinetist Sabine Meyer, Cellist Heinrich Schiff and Pianist Martin Helmchen in a program of works by Beethoven, Berg, Shostakovitch and Brahms.

Here's the rundown:

Festival d'été de Carinthie : Beethoven, Chostakovitch, Berg, Brahms

Part 1 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Trio avec piano N°4 en si bémol majeur Op.11, Gassenhauer (1797)

1- Allegro con brio
2- Adagio
3- Tema con variazioni. Allegretto. Allegro

Dmitri Chostakovitch

Sonate pour violoncelle et piano en ré mineur Op. 40 (1934)

1- Allegro non troppo
2- Allegro
3- Largo
4- Allegro

Part 2 - Alban Berg (1885-1935)

4 Pièces pour clarinette et piano Op.5 (1920)

1- Mässig
2- Sehr langsam
3- Sehr rasch
4-Langsam

Johannes Brahms

Trio avec piano en la mineur Op.114 (1891)
1- Allegro. Poco meno allegro
2- Adagio
3-Andantino grazioso. Un poco sostenuto
4- Allegro

Sabine Meyer, Clarinette
Heinrich Schiff, Violoncelle
Martin Helmchen, Piano

Concert donné le 12 juillet 2011 en la Stiftskirche d’Ossiach dans le cadre du Festival d’été de Carinthie.

Great concert, relayed from Paris so the announcements are in French - but it's all Road-Rage Wednesday, if you ask me. And it is Summer Festival Season.

Enjoy.

This week's concert comes from Stockholm and it features the Swedish Radio Symphony, conducted by Daniel Harding and featuring one of the legendary figures of the keyboard, Menahem Pressler playing the Mozart G Major Piano Concerto K. 453. After the break, the orchestra embarks on a seamless presentation of music by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg. The concert was recorded on February 10th by Sveriges Radio.

Since there was a rather lengthy intermission, I just decided to break the concert up between two players, with part one (the top player) featuring the Mozart along with a Chopin encore. And part two (the bottom player) featuring the Schoenberg, Webern and Berg.

Here are the Program notes from Sveriges Radio:

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Publiken var i extas" rapporterade en P2 Live klassiskt-medarbetare efter Menahem Presslers och Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkesters konsert i Berwaldhallen den 10 februari. Lyssna på detta ljuvliga framförande av Mozarts pianokonsert nr 17 och triptyken av Schönberg-Webern-Berg som har kallats för "Mahlers elfte symfoni".

21:30: Konsert med Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester
Solist: Menahem Pressler, piano. Dirigent: Daniel Harding.

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Pianokonsert nr 17 G-dur.

2. Arnold Schönberg: Fem orkesterstycken.

3. Anton Webern: Sex orkesterstycken.

4. Alban Berg: Tre orkesterstycken.

Konsert 10/2, Berwaldhallen.

Announcements are in Swedish and I've kept them to a minimum.

A great concert featuring one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio (Pressler) who is still actively touring and teaching and one of the truly bright lights of the music world.

Enjoy.