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

Continuing this week’s theme of journeys, our music today takes us from Venice to New Orleans via the second circle of Hell - as represented in Tchaikovsky’s tone poem Francesca da Rimini, which is based on a passage from Dante’s Inferno. Current ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Kleio Quartet perform our centrepiece today: Wynton Marsalis’s String Quartet No 1 ‘At the Octoroon Balls’, a piece which reflects the cultural richness and contradictions of the city of New Orleans. And an alumnus of the scheme, soprano Ailish Tynan, transports us to La Serenissima in a performance of Reynaldo Hahn’s Venice: Songs in Venetian Dialect, recorded earlier this year in Belfast. And we celebrate Hogmanay with more music recorded in Scotland, including a wonderfully rowdy version of Peter Maxwell Davies’ An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise.

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Peter Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Chris Gibbs (bagpipes)
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Maurice Ravel
Menuet Antique
Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Reynaldo Hahn
Venezia (Chansons en dialecte Venetien)
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
James Baillieu (piano)

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini - symphonic fantasia after Dante
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

Joanna Forbes L’Estrange
Auld Lang Syne
London Voices
Ben Parry (conductor)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in G major, K.525 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'
Telemann Chamber Orchestra
Takeharu Nobuhara (conductor)

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Wynton Marsalis
String Quartet No 1 ‘At the Octoroon Balls’
Kleio Quartet

Marianna Martines
Sinfonia in C major
´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra
Johannes Wildner (conductor)

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