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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: Mark Simpson, Danish String Quartet, Benjamin Grosvenor

Music: Classical

Sean Shibe, Mark Simpson, Trish Clowes

16/08/2015

Mark Simpson, Danish String Quartet, Benjamin Grosvenor

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Radio 3 New Generation Artists in music by Brahms, Grunfeld, Gershwin and Bernstein.

Current and former Radio 3 New Generation Artists feature in music by Brahms, Grunfeld, Gershwin and Bernstein.

The BBC's New Generation Artists scheme exists to nurture and promote the talents of young musicians on the threshold of an international career. Tonight, current NGAs the Danish String Quartet are joined by clarinettist Mark Simpson, a recent graduate of the scheme, and there's also a chance to hear the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, an NGA from 2010-12, in recordings made specially for Radio 3.

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op 115
Mark Simpson (clarinet), Danish String Quartet

Alfred Grunfeld: Soirées de Vienne, Op 56
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (solo piano version)
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata in A
Mark Simpson (clarinet), Richard Uttley (piano).

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