03/07/2026
Elizabeth showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Dvorak’s Symphony No.6 and Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote.
Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
This week, Classical Live presents exclusive live recordings from some of the best youth orchestras in Europe; we’ll also hear performances by some of the brilliant young musicians currently enrolled in the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, in a recent season of lunchtime concerts at St George’s Bristol.
We finish the week with the European Union Youth Orchestra, which has members drawn from the 27 members states of the European Union, and their performance of Don Quixote Op.35 by Richard Strauss. We’ll also hear more from BBC Radio 3 New Generation artists Julius Asal and the NOVO Quartet.
Johannes Brahms
Quintet for clarinet and strings in B minor, Op.115
Oleg Shebeta-Dragan, clarinet
NOVO Quartet
Richard Strauss
Don Quixote Op.35
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
European Union Youth Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, D 571: 1st movement (Allegro moderato)
Julius Asal, piano
Sergei Prokofiev
Pensees Op.62
Julius Asal, piano
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 6 in D, op. 60
National Youth Orchestra of Slovakia
Sophie Dervaux, conductor
On radio
Broadcast
- Fri 3 Jul 202613:00BBC Radio 3
