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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: Winter Series - Programme 3

Elisabeth Brauss plays Schubert

Winter Series - Programme 3

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Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform Mozart, Mendelssohn and Rodrigo.

Radio 3 New Generation Artists perform works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Rodrigo at the Aldeburgh Festival's Big Chamber Weekend.

Kate Molleson presents the third programme in her winter series celebrating the talents of Radio 3's internationally-acclaimed young artist scheme. 
Today, Elisabeth Brauss plays the piano variations that Mendelssohn composed in memory of Beethoven and cellist Anastasia Kobekina teams up with two recent members of the scheme to play Mozart at the Aldeburgh Festival's Big Chamber Weekend. Also today Alessandro Fisher sings two of Rodrigo's charming Christmas songs for tenor and guitar.  

Rodrigo: Coplillas de Belen (3 Villancicos no.2)	
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Thibaut Garcia (guitar) 

Schumann: Kind im Einschlummern and Der Dichter Spricht from Kinderszenen	
Eric Lu (piano)

Mozart: Divertimento in E flat major K.563
Aleksey Semenenko (violin), Eivind Ringstad (viola), Anastasia Kobekina (cello) 
		
Mendelssohn: 	Variations sérieuses in d minor Op. 54	
Elisabeth Brauss (piano)

Barber: Hermit Songs: No. 2 "Church Bell at Night"
James Newby (baritone) Joseph Middleton (piano)

Ireland: The Holy Boy	
Timothy Ridout (viola), James Baillieu (piano)

Rodrigo: Pastorcito Santo (3 Villancicos no.1)	
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Thibaut Garcia (guitar)

Established two decades ago, Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme is internationally acknowledged as the foremost scheme of its kind. The BBC New Generation Artists Scheme is not itself a prize, rather it offers a unique two year platform on which artists can develop their prodigious talents. Not surprisingly, the list of alumni reads like a Who’s Who of the most exciting musicians of the past two decades.

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