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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 Belfast’s Ulster Hall, with live concert recordings made specially for us there by the Ulster Orchestra. Today, we hear from their 2024-25 season opening concert, which featured pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason as the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. There’s also symphonic Bruckner from later in the season – his Symphony No. 1 in the Linz version.

And our focus on Dvorak’s chamber music continues with former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Armida Quartet performing the String Quartet No. 14 at last year’s Rheingau Music Festival.

Plus there’s a chance to hear 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, Kristina Arakelyan marks 2024, the ‘year of the Aurora’.

1pm
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Eduardo Strausser (conductor)

Giovanni Battista Bononcini
Partir Vorrei (Polifemo)
Bruno da Sà (male soprano)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (director)

Alessandro Scarlatti
Più non m'alletta e piace (Il Giardino d’Amore - Venere e Adone)
Bruno da Sà (male soprano)
Ensemble 1700
Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder and director)

Antonin Dvorak
String Quartet No. 14 in A flat major, Op. 105
Armida Quartet

Kristina Arakelyan
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3: 25 for 25 commission (title TBC)
Kristina Arakelyan (piano)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra

Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor (arr. for recorder)
Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder)
Ensemble 1700

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 1 in C minor (Linz version)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

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