The Orsino Ensemble live from Wigmore Hall

Linton Stephens presents an afternoon of great performances from the UK and beyond. A focus on conductors this week begins with the acclaimed Hong Kong born conductor Elim Chan. She is music-director designate of the San Francisco Symphony but today you can catch her directing the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Gabriela Montero's 'Latin Concerto', the composer herself at the piano, given today as part of Radio 3's 'Piano Mondays'.
And staying with the piano, Linton takes us to New Ross, a port town on the River Barrow in County Wexford, Ireland, for the New Ross Piano Festival where the internationally acclaimed pianist Markus Groh performs music by Beethoven.

But we begin with a recital of music for winds from the Orsino Ensemble, Live from Wigmore Hall, featuring some of today's major league wind-players.

Orsino Ensemble live from Wigmore Hall:

Samuel Barber
Summer Music Op 31

Mark Simpson
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (UK première)

Carl Nielsen
Wind Quintet Op 43

Introduced for Classical Live by Petroc Trelawney

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Gabriela Montero
Concerto No 1 ‘Latin Concerto’
Gabriela Montero (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chan (conductor)

Zoltan Kodaly
Dances from Galanta
BBC Philharmonic
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

New Ross Piano Festival:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle in C major, Allegretto, WoO 56
“Für Elise” (“For Elise”), Con moto / Poco grazioso, in A minor, WoO 59
Bagatelle in B-flat major, Ziemlich lebhaft, WoO 60
Allegretto in B minor, WoO 61
Markus Groh (piano)

New Ross Piano Festival:
Max Bruch
Eight Pieces for clarinet, Op 83
Robert Plane (clarinet)
Rachel Roberts (viola)
Anna Fedorova (piano)