ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½

Beethoven's music forms the backbone of today's programme of specially made recordings with performances of his chamber music drawn from a variety of genres and recorded late last year at the 'Beethoven Dedications' series given at LSO St Luke's.

This week's orchestra in focus is the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and it performs Beethoven's 6th Symphony - the Pastoral - under its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo.

Also on the orchestra's playlist today is a specially recorded performance of Busoni's Violin Concerto with Italian violinist Francesca Dego plus music by the French composer Guillaume Connesson inspired by the writings of HP Lovecraft.

Pianist Paul Lewis begins a short personal selection of sonatas by Schubert and we've the next instalment in Radio 3's series of new commissions '25 for 25' charting milestones from the first twenty-five years of the Twenty-First Century through new music.

Today's Classical Live is presented by Fiona Talkington.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Antonin Dvorak
Slavonic Dance Op. 72/2
Paul Lewis (piano)
Steven Osborne (piano)

Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in A minor D. 784
Paul Lewis (piano)

25 for 25
Jasper Dommett: King Torques Hollow Acetate
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen (conductor)

'Beethoven Dedications' from LSO St. Luke's
Ludwig van Beethoven
12 Variations on ‘Se vuol ballare’ (from Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’)  WoO. 40
Chloë Hanslip (violin)
Danny Driver (piano)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sextet in Eb major Op. 71
LSO Wind Ensemble

Guillaume Connesson
Les Cités de Lovecraft – I. Celephais
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Katharina Wincour (conductor)

Ferruccio Busoni
Violin Concerto in D Op. 35a
Francesca Dego (violin)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say "Ask ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Sounds to play Classical Live".