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New Generation Artists - a BBC scheme to nurture exceptional young talent

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: Benjamin Grosvenor, Alexandra Soumm, Escher String Quartet, Shabaka Hutchings

31/12/2010

Benjamin Grosvenor, Alexandra Soumm, Escher String Quartet, Shabaka Hutchings

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Music from Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Alexandra Soumm (violin) and the Escher Quartet.

Including pianist Benjamin Grosvenor in Gershwin, jazz clarinettist Shabaka Hutchings, violinist Alexandra Soumm and the Escher String Quartet performing Beethoven.

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 final programme in our Christmas showcase, we hear studio performances by some of the scheme's current members, including tonight violinist Alexandra Soumm in Lutoslawski's Subito, the Escher String Quartet from the USA in Beethoven's F major Quartet, Op. 59 No.1 and Benjamin Grosvenor in the solo piano version of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. 

FULL PROGRAMME
Sousa arr. Horowitz: The Stars and Stripes forever 
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Hutchings/Joseph
At Rest
Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet), Julian Joseph (piano)

Lutoslawski: Subito 
Alexandra Soumm (violin), Aimo Pagin (piano)

Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 59 No. 1
Escher String Quartet

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano).

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