Boris Gitburg plays Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 in E in Leipzig

Linton Stephens brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making including a week-long focus on Leipzig, a pivotal centre in Western classical music. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra perform Lili Boulanger's D'un matin de printemps and pianist Boris Gitburg joins the orchestra to play Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E. There is also a performance of Sergei Taneyev's solemn and contemplative John of Damascus cantata, op. 1 from the MDR Radio Chorus and Orchestra, Leipzig.
Elsewhere in the programme, there is exclusively recorded music from the current cohort of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Sterling Elliot performs Jean R. Perrault, and flautist Elizaveta Ivanova plays Faure.
Across the week, there is also an exploration of music composed for the bassoon. Today, Poulenc's Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano is played by oboist Albrecht Mayer, bassoonist Václav Vonásek and pianist Robert Kolinsky.

Lili Boulanger
D'un matin de printemps
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Jean R. Perrault
Brother Malcom (2009)
Sterling Elliott (cello)
Richard Uttley (piano)

Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E
Boris Gitburg (piano)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Gabriel Faure
Fantasie Op. 79
Elizaveta Ianova (flute)
Sanja Bizjak (piano)

Francis Poulenc
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, FP 43
Albrecht Mayer (oboe)
Václav Vonásek (bassoon)
Robert Kolinsky (piano)

John of Damascus, cantata, Op. 1
MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig
Pavel Brochin (chorus director)
MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig
Keri-Lynn Wilson (conductor)

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