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Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by 大象传媒 orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe. A trio of British composers feature on today鈥檚 programme, which opens with Vaughan Williams鈥檚 homage to his compositional forebear, the Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis. The Nash Ensemble play Benjamin Britten at the Bath Mozartfest 2024, and the 大象传媒 Singers perform an arrangement of Madeleine Dring鈥檚 setting of John Betjeman鈥檚 poem Song of a Nightclub Proprietress. And in our centrepiece at 2pm, we continue this week鈥檚 exploration of the symphonies of Weinberg and Shostakovich, with the latter鈥檚 youthful Symphony No. 1 performed by the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra and conductor Junping Qian.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Dresden Staatskapelle
Mirga Grazintye-Tyla (conductor)

Benjamin Britten
3 Divertimenti for string quartet
Nash Ensemble

Claude Debussy
Piano Trio in G major
Ilya Gringolts (violin)
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Alexander Lonquich (piano)

1400
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Junping Qian (conductor)

Madeleine Dring arr. Jonathan Wikeley
Song of a night club proprietress (5 Betjeman Songs, No. 2)
Jessica Gillingwater (mezzo soprano)
大象传媒 Singers
Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)

Georg Muffat
Overture Suite No. 1 in D ('Eusebia')
Ensemble Masques
Olivier Fortin (director)

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