Bach, Bernstein and Mahler from Leipzig

Linton Stephens brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making, including a week-long focus on Leipzig, a pivotal centre in Western classical music. The MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig, perform Leopold Stokowski's arrangement of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra play Bernstein's jazzy Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story' and, in contrast, Mahler's atmospheric First Symphony.
Elsewhere in the programme, exclusively recorded music from our current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Violinist Hana Chang performs Brahms, pianist Julius Asal plays Bartok, saxophonist Emma Rawicz brings a little jazz with her own original composition and cellist Sterling Elliott plays Kevin Day.
And to end our week of music featuring the bassoon, today Fasch's Concerto in C minor is performed by the Italian bassoonist Sergio Azzolini.

Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Leopold Stokowski)
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV. 565
MDR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig
Keri-Lynn Wilson (conductor)

Radio 3 New Generation Artists:
Johannes Brahms
Violin Sonata No.2 in A, Op. 100
Hana Chang (violin)
Jonathan Ware (piano)

Johann Friedrich Fasch
Bassoon Concerto in C minor, FaWV. L:c2
Camerata Bern
Sergio Azzolini (bassoon, conductor)

Radio 3 New Generation Artists:
Bela Bartok
Suite, Op. 14
Julius Asal (piano)

Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances, from 'West Side Story'
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
David Robertson (conductor)

Radio 3 New Generation Artists:
Emma Rawicz
Maybe So
Emma Rawicz (tenor sax)
Rasmus Sørensen (piano)
David Preston (electric guitar)
Freddie Jensen (bass)
Marc Michel (drums)

Radio 3 New Generation Artists:
Kevin Day
Gymnopédie I (2018)
Sterling Elliott (cello)
Richard Uttley (piano)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 in D ('Titan')
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Alan Gilbert (conductor)

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