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Linton Stephens showcases live music-making from home and abroad

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond including Mozart and Haydn from London and Shostakovich from Hamburg.

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances by ѿý orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

Today's programme includes specially recorded music from a recent LSO St Luke's series, featuring complementary string quartets by Haydn and Mozart. The Consone Quartet performs Haydn's 'Lark' Quartet, alongside Mozart's 'Spring' Quartet.

Plus we travel to Copenhagen where soprano Johanna Wallroth - a Radio 3 New Generation Artist - sings Debussy alongside mezzo Anna Larsson and the Women of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, with Barbara Hannigan, and then there's Austrian-Iranian cellist Kian Soltani performing Shostakovich for Classical Live in Hamburg.

Max Richter
The Four Seasons Recomposed – No. 4 ‘Winter’
12 Ensemble
Eloisa-Fleur Thom (violin/director)

Hector Berlioz
Overture Le Corsaire Op. 21
ѿý National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Franz Liszt
Années de pèlerinage Bk 3 – 'Les jeux d’eau à la villa d’Este' S. 163
Nelson Goerner (piano)

Claude Debussy
La Damoiselle élue L. 62
Johanna Wallroth (soprano)
Anna Larsson (mezzo)
Women of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (conductor)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1 in Eb major Op. 107
Kian Soltani (cello)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Florence Price
Resignation for chorus
ѿý Singers
Benjamin Nicholas (conductor)

From LSO St Luke's

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’
Consone Quartet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No.14 in G major, K.387 ‘Spring’  
Consone Quartet

Brahms: Theme and Variations in D Minor Op. 18b
Eric Lui (piano)

2 hours, 58 minutes

Music Played

  • Max Richter

    Vivaldi - The Four Seasons Recomposed: No. 4 Winter (L'Inverno)

    Performer: Eloisa‐Fleur Thom. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Corsaire - overture (Op.21)

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • GBѿý.
  • Franz Liszt

    Les jeux d'eaux à la villa d'este, from Années de pèlerinage III, S.163

    Performer: Nelson Goerner.
  • Claude Debussy

    La Damoiselle élue, L. 62

    Singer: Johanna Wallroth. Singer: Anna Larsson. Choir: Danish National Radio Choir. Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Barbara Hannigan.
  • George Frideric Handel

    March arr Steele-Perkins (Scipione)

    Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Orchestra: Armonico Consort.
    • Let The Bright Seraphim Works by J.S. Bach, Telemann, A.Scarlatti and Handel.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 21.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat, op. 107

    Performer: Kian Soltani. Orchestra: North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karina Canellakis.
  • Florence Price

    Resignation

    Choir: ѿý Singers. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La Poule (Concert en sextuor No 6 in G minor)

    Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • Decca.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op 64 No 5, 'The Lark'

    Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in G major, K387 "Spring"

    Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op 33 No 3, 'The Bird' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consone Quartet.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Theme and Variations in D minor, Op. 18b

    Performer: Eric Lu.
  • Shirley Thompson

    Semplice Sempre

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Ensemble: Her Ensemble.
    • Semplice Sempre.
    • Sony Classical/Sony Music.
    • 1.
  • Julia Perry

    Short Piece for Orchestra

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.
  • Trad.

    Tarantella Italiana

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.

Broadcast

  • Thu 23 May 2024 13:00