Mark Forrest showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
This week on Classical Live, we have music from the Barber Lunchtime Concert Series, held in Birmingham. Pianist Elisabeth Brauss performs Schumann's Theme and variations in E flat major. Plus, countertenor Hugh Cutting and lute player Daniel Murphy together in a programme entitled 'Heartstrings', exploring love songs.
Mark also has a spotlight on Robert and Clara Schumann throughout the week. Today, viola and piano duo Rosalind Ventris and Llyr Williams perform Clara Schumann's 3 Romances, Op. 22 and at 3pm, Schumann's Symphony No. 4 is performed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne and conductor Marek Janowski.
Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op.43
Lise de la Salle (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Anna Rakitina (conductor)
Robert Schumann
Theme and variations in E flat major Op.posth. for piano, ‘Ghost variations’
Elisabeth Brauss (piano)
Antonín Dvořák
Carnival Overture, Op. 92
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)
Clara Schumann
3 Romances, Op. 22
Rosalind Ventris (viola)
Llyr Williams (piano)
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26
Vadim Gluzman (violin)
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne
Marek Janowski, conductor
Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for Recorder and Flute in E minor, TWV 52:e1
Telemann Chamber Orchestra
The Beatles
Blackbird
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
John Dowland
Say, Love, if ever thou didst find
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Fleetwood Mac
Songbird
Hugh Cutting (counter tenor)
Daniel Murphy (lute)
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 4.
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne
Marek Janowski (conductor)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor [1875-1912]
Petite Suite de Concert
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey (conductor)
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