Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony

Linton Stephens with another programme of specially recorded performances from the UK and abroad. Pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja & Mihály Berecz perform Hungarian music by Bartok and Liszt, and we hear Haydn’s ‘Bird’ Quartet from former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Leonkoro Quartet. This week’s featured ensemble The Ulster Orchestra opens the programme with Sibelius’s deeply romantic Suite King Christian II; they’re joined by Irish pianist Finghin Collins for a performance of Stanford’s 2nd Piano Concerto, and they end today with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 – a piece full of orchestral brilliance.

Jean Sibelius
King Christian II Suite
Ulster Orchestra
Junping Qian (conductor)

Franz Liszt
2 Concert etudes, S.145
Elisabeth Leonskaja & Mihály Berecz (pianos)

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in C major, Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’
Leonkoro Quartet

Charles Villiers Stanford
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126
Finghin Collins (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Pierre de Manchicourt
Laudate Dominum
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Denis Comtet (conductor)

Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor ‘Rosamunde’, D. 804
Aris Quartett

Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto in F, RV. 570 'La tempesta di mare'
Daniela Lieb (flute)
Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann (oboe)
Eyal Streett (bassoon)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Cecilia Bernardini (conductor)

Bela Bartok
3 Burlesques, Sz. 47
Elisabeth Leonskaja & Mihály Berecz (pianos)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in B flat, Op. 60
Ulster Orchestra
Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)

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