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Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the fifth programme in a series of Monday Lunchtime Concerts featuring current and recent Radio 3 New Generation Artists in performances from across the UK. Today, violinist Johan Dalene joins the viola of Eivind Ringstad at the Cheltenham Festival for Johan Halvorsen's re-working of a Passacaglia by Handel and the Mithras Trio introduce the Yorkshire's Ryedale Festival audience to the remarkable Piano Trio by the 12-year-old Erich Korngold. And, in Birmingham, Helen Charlston makes an imaginative pairing of songs by John Ireland and Fanny Mendelssohn Henselt.

Handel arr. Halvorsen: Passacaglia for Violin and Viola
Johan Dalene (violin)
Eivind Ringstad (viola)

Fanny Mendelssohn Henselt: Wanderlied
Fanny Mendelssohn Henselt: Nachtwanderer
Ireland: The Vagabond
Ireland: Sea Fever
Fanny Mendelssohn Henselt: 脺ber allen Gipfeln ist Ruh'

Korngold: Piano Trio in D major, Op.1
Mithras Trio

Established nearly a quarter of a century ago, Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme is acknowledged internationally as the foremost programme of its kind. It exists to offer a platform for artists at the beginning of their international careers; each year six musicians join the scheme for two years, during which time they appear at the UK's major music festivals and venues, enjoy dates with the 大象传媒 orchestras and have the opportunity to record in the 大象传媒 studios. The artists are also encouraged to form artistic partnerships with one another and to explore a wide range of repertoire, not least the work of contemporary, women and diverse composers. In recent years Radio 3's New Generation Artists have appeared at many of the UK's music festivals and concert halls. The 大象传媒 New Generation Artists Scheme is not itself a prize, rather it offers a unique two-year platform on which artists can develop their prodigious talents. Not surprisingly, the list of alumni reads like a Who鈥檚 Who of the most exciting musicians of the past two decades including pianists Paul Lewis, Pavel Kolesnikov, Benjamin Grosvenor and Beatrice Rana, violinists Alina Ibragimova and Lisa Batiashvili, the Belcea, Jerusalem and 脡b猫ne Quartets, singers Alice Coote and Fatma Said and the trumpeter Alison Balsom.