Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: New Generation Artists in Concert (6)

New Generation Artists in Concert (6)

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, New Generation Artists in Concert (6)

A keyboard suite by Bach and a cello sonata by Brahms played by New Generation Artists.

Accordionist Ryan Corbett plays Bach's English Suite No 3, Anastasia Kobekina performs Brahms's Second Cello Sonata, plus music from the Fergus McCreadie Trio.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces performances by some of Radio 3's current and recent New Generation Artists given this year at the Norfolk and Norwich and Ryedale Festivals and at Wigmore Hall. The accordionist Ryan Corbett plays a Bach keyboard suite at the medieval church in Hovingham, and the captivating cellist Anastasia Kobekina makes a welcome return to London's Wigmore Hall for Brahms's intense second Cello Sonata. And, to finish, the Mercury-Award nominated pianist Fergus McCreadie and his trio delight the capacity audience with a little encore at the Octagon Chapel in Norwich.   

Bach: English Suite No.3 in G minor, BWV 808 
Ryan Corbett (accordion)

Brahms: Cello Sonata no.2 in F major, Op.99
Anastasia Kobekina (cello)
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula (piano)

Fergus McCreadie: Mountain Moon
Fergus McCreadie Trio


Established nearly a quarter of a century ago, Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme is acknowledged internationally as the foremost programme of its kind. It exists to offer a platform for artists at the beginning of their international careers; each year six musicians join the scheme for two years, during which time they appear at the UK's major music festivals and venues, enjoy dates with the BBC orchestras and have the opportunity to record in the BBC studios. The artists are also encouraged to form artistic partnerships with one another and to explore a wide range of repertoire, not least the work of contemporary, women and diverse composers. In recent years Radio 3's New Generation Artists have appeared at many of the UK's music festivals and concert halls. 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 including pianists Paul Lewis, Pavel Kolesnikov, Benjamin Grosvenor and Beatrice Rana, violinists Alina Ibragimova and Lisa Batiashvili, the Belcea, Jerusalem and Ébène Quartets, singers Alice Coote and Fatma Said and the trumpeter Alison Balsom.

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