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Radio 3,13 Apr 2026,180 mins

The Arod Quartet live from Wigmore Hall

Classical Live

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Linton Stephens introduces an afternoon of live music and specially recorded performances from around the world. In today’s programme, music from Ulster Hall in Belfast as the Ulster Orchestra plays an overture by Liszt, alongside Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel with baritone James Atkinson and Brahms’ Symphony No. 4. Also today, Linton begins a week featuring highlights of a concert given in the German town of Hitzacker by pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja and Mihály Berecz; today, they perform Shostakovich’s Concertino for 2 pianos. And we begin, as ever on a Monday, live at Wigmore Hall in London. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Arod Quartet play quartets by Haydn and Tchaikovsky. Wigmore Hall Live The Arod Quartet Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G, Op. 76 No. 1 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11 Introduced for Classical Live by Hannah French ***** c. 2pm Franz Liszt Tone Poem: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave) Ulster Orchestra Jac van Steen (conductor) Dmitri Shostakovich Concertino for 2 pianos in A minor, Op. 94 Elisabeth Leonskaja & Mihály Berecz (pianos) Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel James Atkinson (baritone) Ulster Orchestra Jac van Steen (conductor) Roxanna Panufnik Love endureth BBC Singers Sofi Jeannin (conductor) Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 Ulster Orchestra Eduardo Strausser (conductor) To listen to this programme using most smart speakers, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live."

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  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    String Quartet in G, Op.76 No.1
    String Quartet in G, Op.76 No.1
    Joseph Haydn
  3. 2.
    String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.11
    String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.11
    Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  4. 3.
    Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, S.107
    Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, S.107
    Franz Liszt