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

Throughout this week Classical Live is spending time in the Cotswolds with chamber concerts specially recorded for us at this year’s Chipping Campden Music Festival. Today, pianist Richard Goode plays Beethoven’s penultimate Piano Sonata, and Steven Isserlis performs his own cello arrangements of the Four Romantic Pieces by Dvorak. Plus we hear another of pianist and composer Tom Poster’s imaginative arrangements for tenor Allan Clayton and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, this time a song by Chris Wood about a romance in a fish and chip shop.

There’s more orchestral music from Sweden, with Maxim Emelyanychev conducting the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Schubert’s so-called Unfinished Symphony, his 8th.

1pm
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Richard Goode (piano)

Johann Ludwig Bach
Overture in G major
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried van der Goltz (director)

Doreen Carwithen
Bishop Rock
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra
Robin Wallington (conductor)

Antonin Dvorak arr. Isseris
Four Romantic Pieces, Op. 75
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Connie Shih (piano)

2pm
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, ‘Unfinished’
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor)

Chris Wood arr. Poster
One in a million
Allan Clayton (tenor)
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

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