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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.

We end our week with a live concert from our ensemble in focus, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra, at their studio in Salford Quays. Clara-Jumi Kang is the soloist in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto before Giuseppe Mengoli conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4.

Continuing our focus this week on the conductor Charles Mackerras, whose 100th anniversary Radio 3 marked with a day of special programmes on Monday, we hear his arrangement of Arthur Sullivan’s ballet Pineapple Poll. It was recorded at a recent Mackerras tribute concert given by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra and conductor Anne-Maria Helsing in Brno, Czech Republic.

We round off a week exploring Robert Schumann’s ‘year of chamber music’ with one more piece he composed in 1842 – his Piano Quartet – performed in Switzerland by pianist Claire Huangci and the Festival Strings Lucerne.

And we make one final visit to the 2025 Glenarm Festival of Voice to hear current Radio 3 New Generation Artist James Atkinson singing the second book of Claude Debussy’s Fetes Galantes.

1pm
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7
Clare Hammond (piano)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Carter (conductor)

Arthur Sullivan arr. Charles Mackerras
Pineapple Poll Suite
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra
Anne-Maria Helsing (conductor)

Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47
Festival Strings Lucerne
Claire Huangci (piano)

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2.30pm – The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra live in MediaCity, Salford Quays

Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Clara-Jumi Kang (violin)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra
Giuseppe Mengoli (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra
Giuseppe Mengoli (conductor)
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Claude Debussy
Fetes Galantes, Book 2
James Atkinson (baritone)
Simon Lepper (piano)

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