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Tom McKinney showcases the best performances by ´óÏó´«Ã½ orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

We revisit this year’s Tetbury Music Festival one last time this week with choral group Polyphony singing music by Finzi and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective playing Brahms. There’s more British baroque music from French ensemble Le Consort’s concert given at this summer’s Rheingau Musik Festival, and at 3pm our orchestra in focus this week, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, is joined by singers Nicky Spence and Ashley Riches for part of Messiaen’s extraordinary opera St Francis of Assisi.

1302
Modest Mussorgsky ed. Rimsky-Korsakov
A Night on the Bare Mountain
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Gustav Mahler
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, No. 6)
James Newby (baritone)
Simon Lepper (piano)

Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

1400
Gerald Finzi
7 Poems of Robert Bridges
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)

Mrs Philarmonica
Sonata No 5 in C minor (2nd and 3rd mvts)
Le Consort

1500
Olivier Messiaen
Saint Francis of Assisi – Act 2 Tableau 6 ‘St Francis preaches to the birds’
Nicky Spence (Brother Masseo, tenor)
Ashley Riches (St Francis, bass-baritone)

Charles Villiers Stanford
The Blue Bird
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)

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