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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, cellist Steven Isserlis continues his Czech-themed concert with music by Josef Suk; there’s more English folksong from Allan Clayton with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective; and we’ll hear the first of Beethoven’s three final sonatas that pianist Richard Goode performed at his recital.

In orchestral music, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra plays Sibelius’s Symphony No. 3 and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra performs Ravel’s iridescent Daphnis and Chloé Suite No. 2. Plus Icelandic baritone Ólafur Sigurðarson joins his compatriots in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra for the final scene from Wagner’s opera The Valkyrie.

And we’ve the latest from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. Today, Cassie Kinoshi marks the year 2021.

1pm
Richard Wagner
Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Eva Ollikainen (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Richard Goode (piano)

Johann Christoph Pez
Concerto Pastorale in F
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Gottfried van der Goltz (director)

Josef Suk
Ballade and Serenade, Op. 3
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Connie Shih (piano)

2pm
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Cassie Kinoshi
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3: 25 for 25 commission

Maurice Ravel
Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Traditional arr. Britten
3 Folksongs: Sally in our Alley; There's None to Soothe; The Crocodile
Allan Clayton (tenor)
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Harpsichord Concerto G minor
Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord)
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin

Richard Wagner
Wotan’s Farewell (Die Walküre, Act 3 ending)
Ólafur Sigurðarson (baritone)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Eva Ollikainen (conductor)

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