Stephanie Hughes presents live music from Europe and Canada, played by some of today's leading artists, including Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev, Musica Antiqua, Koln, under its founder Reinhard Goebel, and the young Finnish conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste, who leads the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Debussy's Prelude a I'Apres-midi d'un Faune. The studio guest at about 10.00 is the journalist and writer Anne Karpf.

Music includes at approximately:

9.25 Wagner Seven Symphonic Fragments from "Parsifal" Frankfurt RSO, conductor Peter Ruzicka

10.05 Beethoven Meeresstille und Gluckliche Fahrt, Op 112 Berlin Radio Chorus, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kent Nagano

10.50 Roussel Symphony No 4 Frankfurt RSO, conductor Sakari Oramo

11.40 Bartok Piano Concerto No 2 Leif Ove Andsnes, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Pierre Boulez

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