Classical Live

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Classical Live: Linton Stephens showcases live music making, including Tchaikovsky performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Linton Stephens showcases live music making, including Tchaikovsky performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Live, Linton Stephens showcases live music making, including Tchaikovsky performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Linton Stephens 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 music from the BBC Symphony Orchestra including a performance of the fate driven Fourth Symphony by Tchaikovsky conducted by the Boston Symphony Orchestra's award winning Assistant Conductor, Anna Rakitina.

Plus, chamber concert recordings from pianist Liana Serbescu, from the Signum Quartet, and more Schubert song from Malcolm Martineau and Friends in Scotland. 

Joseph Haydn
Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2 -'Fifths'
Signum Quartet

Giacomo Puccini
Preludio Sinfonico
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Nil Venditti (Conductor) 

'Malcolm Martineau and Friends'
Franz Schubert 
Auf der Donau D. 553 
Der Unglückliche D. 713b 
Im Walde D. 834 
Der Wanderer D. 489 
Ilker Alcajurek (tenor)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in f minor Op. 36 
Lise de la Salle (Piano)
BBC Symphony orchestra
Anna Rakitina (Conductor)

Ethel Smyth
Prelude & Fugue in C major 
Liana Serbescu (piano)

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