Classical Live

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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 a lunchtime concert from London's Wigmore Hall.

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

Throughout this week, Classical Live showcases some of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists; a scheme that 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.  

Today's programme begins with live music from Wigmore Hall. 

The Calefax Reed Quintet are a Dutch group comprising oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet and bassoon. They'll be performing a variety of popular classics specially arranged for the group's unique line-up.  Hannah French is on site at Wigmore Hall to introduce the concert.  

J.S. Bach (arr. J. Althuis)                                                               
Fantasia & Fugue BWV 542, G minor
 
Antonin Dvořák, (arr. J. Althuis)
Allegro non tanto, Allegro vivo from String Quintet Op. 97
 
Claude Debussy (arr. R. Hekkema)      
Préludes
- La puerta del vino 
- Minstrels 
- La sérénade interrompue
- “General Lavine” – eccentric
 
George Gershwin (arr. R. Hekkema)
An American in Paris 

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Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Festive Overture
Janacek Philharmonic 
Marek Stilec (conductor)

JS Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2
Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major
Prelude and Fugue No. 16 in G minor 
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

Igor Stravinsky
Firebird Suite
Orchestre National de France
Cristian Macelaru (conductor)

Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 2
Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Nil Venditti (conductor)

3pm

William Walton 
Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor
KBS Symphony Orchestra 
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

Vahid Hajihosseini 
Shahre avare shode
Toranj Quartet

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