Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony

Linton Stephens with another programme of specially recorded performances from the UK and abroad. Pianist Mihály Berecz performs Hungarian music by Bartok and Liszt, and we hear Haydn’s ‘Bird’ Quartet from former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Leonkoro Quartet. This week’s featured ensemble The Ulster Orchestra opens the programme with Sibelius’s deeply romantic Suite King Christian II; they’re joined by Irish pianist Finghin Collins for a performance of Stanford’s 2nd Piano Concerto, composed as a direct response to hearing Rachmaninov’s 2nd Concerto, and the Ulster Orchestra end today with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 – a piece full of orchestral brilliance.

Jean Sibelius
King Christian II Suite
Ulster Orchestra
Junping Qian (conductor)

Franz Liszt
2 Concert etudes, S.145
Mihály Berecz (piano)

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in C major, Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’
Leonkoro Quartet

Charles Villiers Stanford
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126
Finghin Collins (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Jac van Steen (conductor)

Pierre de Manchicourt
Laudate Dominum
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Denis Comtet (conductor)

Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor ‘Rosamunde’, D. 804
Aris Quartett

Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto in F, RV. 570 'La tempesta di mare'
Daniela Lieb (flute)
Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann (oboe)
Eyal Streett (bassoon)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Cecilia Bernardini (conductor)

Bela Bartok
3 Burlesques, Sz. 47
Mihály Berecz (piano)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in B flat, Op. 60
Ulster Orchestra
Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)

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