Trio Gaspard live from London's Wigmore Hall

Elizabeth Alker brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making including a live concert from Trio Gaspard at London's Wigmore Hall. Schubert’s expansive Second Piano Trio, with its sublime slow movement (inspired by a Swedish folk melody) and monumental finale, blends the best qualities of an epic novel with those of the finest poetry to create a seemingly infinite world of contrasting moods and ideas. Trio Gaspard’s seasoned interpretation highlights the work’s noble lyricism, infectious energy and captivating panache.

Elsewhere in the programme, there is a focus on one of the finest orchestras in the world, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Today, they perform three works: Weinberg's playful Suite No. 4 from the ballet 'The Golden Key'; Mendelssohn's broodingly atmospheric Hebrides Overture ('Fingal's Cave'); and finally John Adams' Harmonielehre.
There is also chamber music recorded exclusively for BBC Radio 3. Sir Antonio Pappano, Chief Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, performs with colleagues at LSO St Luke's. He is joined by Ian Bostridge for works by Beethoven, while Olivier Stankiewicz and Daniel Jemison join together to perform Poulenc's Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano.
Also featured is an inaugural recital given by organist Olivier Latry recorded at St John’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Titular Organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, Olivier is one of the leading ambassadors for the organ. Today he performs Charles-Marie Widor's Symphonie gothique (Andante sostenuto).

Live from Wigmore Hall and presented by Petroc Trelawny

Franz Schubert
Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat D929

Trio Gaspard
Jonian Ilias Kadesha (violin)
Vashti Hunter (cello)
Nicholas Rimmer (piano)

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Mieczysław Weinberg
Suite No. 4 from the ballet 'The Golden Key', op. 55d
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Sir Antonio Pappano (piano)

Francis Poulenc
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano
Olivier Stankiewicz (oboe)
Daniel Jemison (bassoon)
Sir Antonio Pappano (piano)

Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides, Op. 26, Overture in B minor ('Fingal's Cave')
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Tugan Sokhiev (conductor)

Charles-Marie Widor
Symphonie gothique (Andante sostenuto)
Olivier Latry (organ)

John Adams
Harmonielehre
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

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