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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: Andrei Ionita plays Bach's Cello Suite No 1

Andrei Ionita plays Bach's Cello Suite No 1

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Cellist Andrei Ionita plays Bach and Catriona Morison sings Schumann

Andrei Ionita plays Bach's Cello Suite No 1 and Catriona Morison sings Schumann's haunting Poems of Queen Mary Stuart.

New Generation Artists: Andrei Ionita and Catriona Morison. 
Romanian cellist Andrei Ionita - hailed as 'probably the leading cellist of his generation'- is heard in a suite by Bach from his long-awaited debut release. Also today, Scottish mezzo soprano, Catriona Morison sings Schumann's melancholic Poems of Mary Stuart in a performance she gave at last year's Edinburgh International Festival.   

Bach Suite no. 1 in G major BWV 1007	
Andrei Ionita (cello)

Schumann	Five Poems of Queen Mary Stuart Op. 135 
Catriona Morison (mezzo soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)

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