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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: Chopin, Schumann, Wolf, Mozart and Laura Jurd

Music: Classical

Chopin, Schumann, Wolf, Mozart and Laura Jurd

22/12/2016

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Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform music by Chopin, Schumann, Wolf and Mozart.

Music from Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Pavel Kolesnikov in Chopin, Alec Frank-Gemmill in Schumann, Benjamin Appl in Wolf, Armida Quartet in Mozart, Laura Jurd in her own work.

Clemency Burton-Hill celebrates the music making of the BBC New Generation Artists. In nine early evening programmes over the Christmas season there will be a chance to hear a starry line-up of young musicians caught by the BBC microphones when they are on the brink of glittering international careers. In this first programme, NGA baritone, Benjamin Appl, the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year 2016, sings Goethe settings by Hugo Wolf and Pavel Kolesnikov, whose recent recording of Chopin Mazurkas has received wide critical acclaim, plays Chopin's Scherzo no. 4. Also today, the Berlin-based Armida Quartet, who now feature regularly at the leading chamber music festivals of Europe and America, play Mozart. 

Chopin Scherzo No.4 in E major, Op. 54
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 
Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Simon Smith (piano)

Wolf Goethe-Lieder no. 23 Der neue Amadis, no. 29 Anakreons Grab and Ganymed 
Benjamin Appl (baritone), Andrew West (piano)

Mozart Quartet in G major K. 387
Armida Quartet

Laura Jurd Slowly Waking
Laura Jurd (trumpet), Seb Rochford (drums), John Edwards (double bass).

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