Classical Live

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Specially recorded music from BBC performing groups, the EBU and more.

Showcasing the best performances from the UK and beyond, recorded by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union.

Classical Live: BBC New Generation Artists with Elizabeth Alker

BBC New Generation Artists with Elizabeth Alker

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Live, BBC New Generation Artists with Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker with great music from BBC orchestras and groups across Europe.

Elizabeth Alker showcasing the best performances from the UK and beyond, with music by the BBC New Generation Artists.

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

Today's Classical Live features performances from the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, including the Kazakh-born Alim Beisembayev performing Prokofiev's cinematic - and fiendishly difficult to play - second Piano Concerto.  Plus there's an exclusive recording of former New Generation artist Sean Shibe, who performs the solo part in the legendary Concierto de Aranjuez by Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo, which was written in 1939.

Felix Mendelssohn
Overture to the Fair Melusina
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alena Hron (conductor)

Domenico Scarlatti
Piano Sonata no.1 in d minor
Alim Beisembayev (piano)

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Mandolin
Duilio Galfetti (mandolin)
Il Giardino Armonico 
Giovanni Antonini (director)

Arno Babadjanian
Piano Trio in f sharp minor
Mithras Trio

William Walton 
3 Songs after Edith Sitwell
Fatma Said (soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)

ELGAR arr Simon Parkin			
Nimrod (Enigma Variations)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Sergei Prokofiev 
Piano Concerto No. 2 
Alim Beisembayev (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

3pm

Joaquin Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Sean Shibe (guitar)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Delyana Lazarova (conductor)

Georg Frideric Handel 
Nisi Dominus
Diana Montague (contralto)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Simon Birchall (bass)
Choir and Orchestra of Westminster Abbey
Simon Preston (conductor)

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