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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.

In our final trip to St George’s Bristol this week, we hear current ´óÏó´«Ã½ New Generation Artist performing songs from her native Ireland by the likes of Hamilton Harty, John Larchet and Ernest Moeran.

We end our pilgrimage to the musical city of Leipzig this week with music from three of the most celebrated musicians working there. Ensemble Masques perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s uncharacteristically uncouth Peasant Cantata, and pianist Claire Huagci is the soloist in Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto. Plus Felix Mendelssohn’s symphonic homage to Scotland rounds out our week spent in the famous Gewandhaus; Andris Nelsons conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’ for our of centrepiece at 3pm.

1303
Luise Adolpha le Beau
Concert Overture, Op. 23
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

Hamilton Harty
3 songs: Sea Wrack; Lane o’the Thrushes; Come, O Come My Life’s Delight

John Francis Larchet
3 songs: Love’s Question; Padhraic the Fiddler; The Philosophy of Love

Percy French
Gortnamona

Ernest John Moeran
2 songs: The Roving Dingle Boy; The Tinker’s Daughter
Niamh O’Sullivan (mezzo soprano)
Gary Beecher (piano)

Zoltan Kodaly
String Quartet No. 2
Quatuor Voce

1400
Clara Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7
Claire Huangci (piano)
ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna
Joanna Carneiro (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Peasant cantata, BWV 212 ‘Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet’
Dorothée Mields (soprano)
Gabriel Jubin (counter-tenor)
Thomas Hobbs (tenor)
Romain Bockler (baritone)
Ensemble Masques
Olivier Fortin (director)

1500 - Centrepiece
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, 'Scottish'
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor)

Traditional Scottish
I am asleep
Georgina MacDonell Finlayson (fiddle)
WDR Radio Orchestra, Cologne
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

William Sanderson
As I sit here
Niamh O’Sullivan (mezzo soprano)
Gary Beecher (piano)

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