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

The week begins with a live concert from London’s Wigmore Hall given by current ´óÏó´«Ã½ New Generation Artist, pianist Giorgi Gigashvili. He pairs Beethoven’s late Piano Sonata No. 30 with the first of Prokofiev’s so-called ‘War’ sonatas – the Sixth.

There’s more from current members of the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s prestigious talent development scheme throughout the week in a series of concerts recorded in the beautiful setting of St George’s, Bristol. Today, the Kleio Quartet performs Haydn’s ‘Bird’ Quartet.

And we start a week focused on the German city of Leipzig, whose musical pedigree rivals any in Europe. Every day we’ll hear music by its most famous musical inhabitant, Johann Sebastian Bach, starting in the building for which he composed so much of his music: the Thomaskirche. The St Thomas Choir is joined by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for the cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort in a performance from the 2024 Leipzig Bach Festival. And for our centrepiece at 3pm, that venerable orchestra is joined by cellist Alisa Weilerstein for Samuel Barber’s Cello Concerto.

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Live from Wigmore Hall, London, presented by Fiona Talkington

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109

Sergey Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82

Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)

1400
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Wasps (Overture)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60
Alexander Chance (alto)
Jakob Pilgram (tenor)
Matthias Helm (bass)
St Thomas's Choir, Leipzig
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Andreas Reize (conductor)

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in C major, Op. 33 No. 3, ‘The Bird’
Kleio Quartet

1500 Centrepiece
Samuel Barber
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 22
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)

Gustav Mahler
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder, No. 5)
Helen Charlston (mezzo soprano)
Kunal Lahiry (piano)

Johann Christoph Bach
Mein Freund ist Mein (Ciaconna from cantata ‘Meine Freudin, du bist schön’)
Julia Doyle (soprano)
Vilde Frang (violin)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Jonathan Cohen (director)

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