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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.

Throughout this week we join several of our current ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artists in concert at St George’s, Bristol. Today, the Kleio Quartet perform Nielsen’s first String Quartet and pianist Alim Beisembayev plays Ravel’s tender homage to Schubert, the Noble and Sentimental Waltzes.

Schubert himself provides our centrepiece at 3pm, with Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in the ‘Great’ Symphony, No. 9. And our celebration of the city of Leipzig continues with another cantata written there by Johann Sebastian Bach, Non sa che sia dolore, one of only two cantatas he wrote in Italian.

Plus ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. Today, American composer Nkeiru Okoye marks the historic 2008 election of the first African-American US president in her piece And the People Celebrated, recorded by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra and narrator Paterson Joseph.

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George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in A minor, Op. 6 No. 4
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Jonathan Cohen (director)

Maurice Ravel
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Alim Beisembayev (piano)

Carl Nielsen
String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13
Kleio Quartet

1400
Johann Sebastian Bach
Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209
Julia Doyle (soprano)
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Jonathan Cohen (director)

Nkeiru Okoye
And the People Celebrated Paterson Joseph (narrator)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra
George Morton (conductor)

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Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 9 in C, D. 944 'Great'
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)

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