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In an afternoon of specially recorded performances Linton Stephens introduces chamber music highlights from the East Neuk Festival in Fife plus the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductor Alain Altinoglu performing Brahms's Symphony No. 3.

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra are our ensemble in focus this week. Today we hear them in a a double helping of music by Brahms – his orchestral Variations on a Theme by Haydn and his exhuberant Symphony No. 3. Plus cellist Kian Soltani joins the orchestra for Prokofiev’s Symphony-Concerto, a piece forged out of the composer's earlier attempt at a cello concerto.

We’re also spending time all week in the picturesque East Neuk of Fife, hearing music recorded specially for us at the East Neuk Festival in June. Four superb ensembles – the Belcea, Castalian, Elias and Pavel Haas Quartets – combine to form a string supergroup, giving the world premiere of Sally Beamish’s piece Field of Stars. There’s also Mozart from clarinettist Sergio Pires and friends.

1pm
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Trio in E flat major K.498 (Kegelstatt) for clarinet, viola and piano
Emma Wernig (viola)
Sergio Pires (clarinet)
Chiyan Wong (piano)

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Sally Beamish
Field of Stars for 4 string quartets [World Premiere]
Belcea Quartet
Castalian Quartet
Elias Quartet
Pavel Haas Quartet

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra, Op. 125
Kian Soltani (cello)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Petr Popelka (conductor)

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