The Arod Quartet live from Wigmore Hall

Linton Stephens introduces an afternoon of live music and specially recorded performances from around the world. In today’s programme, music from Ulster Hall in Belfast as the Ulster Orchestra plays an overture by Liszt, alongside Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel with baritone James Atkinson and Brahms’ Symphony No. 4. Also today, Linton begins a week featuring highlights of a concert given in the German town of Hitzacker by pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja and Mihály Berecz; today, they perform Shostakovich’s Concertino for 2 pianos. And we begin, as ever on a Monday, live at Wigmore Hall in London. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Arod Quartet play quartets by Haydn and Tchaikovsky.

Wigmore Hall Live

The Arod Quartet

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in G, Op. 76 No. 1

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11

Introduced for Classical Live by Hannah French

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Franz Liszt
Tone Poem: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Concertino for 2 pianos in A minor, Op. 94
Elisabeth Leonskaja & Mihály Berecz (pianos)

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Songs of Travel
James Atkinson (baritone)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Roxanna Panufnik
Love endureth
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Ulster Orchestra
Eduardo Strausser (conductor)

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