Schubert's "Trout Quintet" from the East Neuk Festival

Alex Humphreys presents an afternoon of exclusive music-making from the UK and beyond, with performances captured at two major European festivals. From the Baltic Sea Festival, we hear early music performed by the award-winning period-instrument ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, joined by countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński. Soprano Malin Byström joins the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra for music by Alma Mahler.

Elsewhere in the Baltic region, the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Olari Elts perform Brahms’s expansive Third Symphony and Kodály’s colourful Suite from Háry János, featuring cimbalom.

From the East Neuk Festival, the Calidore Quartet perform Barber’s haunting Adagio for Strings, followed by Schubert’s much-loved Trout Quintet, with pianist Christian Zacharias, the Cuarteto Quiroga and double bassist Ander Perrino Cabello.

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F, op. 90
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Olari Elts (conductor)

East Neuk Festival:
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings
Calidore Quartet

Baltic Sea Festival:
Giovanni Cesare Netti
Misero core, Si, si, si scioglia si, Dolcissime catene, Berillo's aria from 'La Filli'
Il Pomo d'Oro
Jakub Józef Orliński, (countertenor)

Baltic Sea Festival:
Antonio Sartorio
La certezza di sua fede, Pompeiano's aria from act 3 of 'Antonio e Pompeiano'
Il Pomo d'Oro
Jakub Józef Orliński, (countertenor)

East Neuk Festival:
Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, "Trout Quintet,"
Christian Zacharias (piano)
Cuarteto Quiroga
Ander Perrino Cabello (double bass)

Zoltán Kodály
Suite from 'Háry János, op. 15'
Ivan Curtean (cimbalom)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Olari Elts (conductor)

Baltic Sea Festival:
Alma Mahler
Five Songs (1924)
Malin Byström (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Andrés Orozco-Estrada (conductor)

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