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Linton Stephens showcases the best performances by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

This week we hear from a pair of recent concerts recorded at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, featuring two exceptional international pianists: Nobuyuki Tsujii and Jonathan Biss. Today, the Japanese pianist universally known as Nobu plays Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata, as well as music by Chopin and Liszt.

And we continue our focus on beloved British masterpieces with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s London Symphony – a musical tribute to the city, written just before the First World War. We hear it in a concert performance given in the German spa town of Baden-Baden last year by the Stuttgart-based SWR Symphony Orchestra.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No 21 in C major Op 53 ‘Waldstein’
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)

Fryderyk Chopin
2 Nocturnes, Op 27
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)

Richard Wagner
Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Ulster Orchestra
Anna Rakitina (conductor)

2pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 2, ‘A London Symphony’
SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Tarmo Peltokoski (conductor)

Franz Liszt
Mephisto Waltz No 1
Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)

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