Boris Giltburg plays Bartók’s 3rd Piano Concerto from Leipzig

Linton Stephens brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making, including a week-long focus on Leipzig, a pivotal centre in Western classical music. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra perform Lili Boulanger's orchestral depiction of ‘A Morning in Spring’, and pianist Boris Giltburg joins the orchestra to play Béla Bartók's virtuoso 3rd Piano Concerto. There is also a performance of Sergei Taneyev's rarely programmed choral cantata John of Damascus, inspired by the religious writings of Tolstoy and performed by the MDR Radio Chorus and Orchestra, Leipzig.
Elsewhere in the programme, exclusive studio and concert recordings from BBC Radio 3’s current selection of New Generation Artists. Cellist Sterling Elliott performs Perrault, and flautist Elizaveta Ivanova plays Faure.
And more music foregrounding the bassoon. Today’s choice is Poulenc's Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano in a performance given by oboist Albrecht Mayer, bassoonist Václav Vonásek and pianist Robert Kolinsky

Lili Boulanger
D'un matin de printemps
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Radio 3 New Generation Artists:
Jean R. Perrault
Brother Malcom
Sterling Elliott (cello)
Richard Uttley (piano)

Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E
Boris Giltburg (piano)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Radio 3 New Generation Artists:
Gabriel Faure
Fantasie Op. 79
Elizaveta Ivanova (flute)
Sanja Bizjak (piano)

Francis Poulenc
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, FP 43
Albrecht Mayer (oboe)
Václav Vonásek (bassoon)
Robert Kolinsky (piano)

Sergei Taneyev
John of Damascus, cantata, Op. 1
MDR Radio Chorus, Leipzig
Pavel Brochin (chorus director)
MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig
Keri-Lynn Wilson (conductor)

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