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The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Scheme helps to support talented musicians to reach the next stages of their careers and brings some of the world’s most promising new talent to listeners across the UK through BBC Radio 3 broadcasts.

New Generation Artists: Alexandra Soumm, Giuliano Sommerhalder, Daniela Lehner, Benjamin Grosvenor

Alexandra Soumm, Giuliano Sommerhalder, Daniela Lehner, Benjamin Grosvenor

22/12/2010

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Performances from Alexandra Soumm (violin) and Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet).

Alexandra Soumm (violin), Aimo Pagin (piano) in Ravel: Tzigane. Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet) in Shchedrin. Plus music from mezzo Daniela Lehner and Benjamin Grosvenor (piano).

The Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme exists to provide support to some of the brightest talents in the world of classical music, and in the ten years of its existence has numbered artists such as the Belcea String Quartet, Paul Lewis, Janine Jansen, Natalie Clein and Alice Coote among its distinguished members.

In the third of ten early-evening programmes over the Christmas period, we hear studio and live concert performances by some of the scheme's current members, including tonight three newcomers: violinist Alexandra Soumm from France, and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and jazz clarinettist Shabaka Hutchings, both from the UK. Plus music from Swiss trumpeter Giuliano Sommerhalder, Austrian mezzo-soprano Daniela Lehner and the UK-based Elias String Quartet.

FULL PROGRAMME
Ravel: Tzigane
Alexandra Soumm (violin), Aimo Pagin (piano)

Shchedrin: In the style of Albeniz
Ravel: Piece en forme d'Habanera
Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Kasia Wieczorek (piano)

Britten: Divertimenti 
Elias String Quartet

Hutchings/Joseph
Institute of Struggle
Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet), Julian Joseph (piano)

Lorca: La Tarara; Las morillas de Jaen
Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano), Jose Luis Gayo (piano)

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit 
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano).

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