Pianist Elisabeth Brauss live from Wigmore Hall

Elizabeth Alker reflects on some recent highlights from the BBC orchestras and choirs, as they begin their new 2026/7 seasons. Today’s offering features baroque music from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra playing Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin.

Music from current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists will feature throughout the week, with today showcasing music from the Astatine Trio and NOVO Quartet.

Our featured artist this week is Verità Baroque, an ensemble on a mission to contextualise baroque chamber music in the 21st Century.

Before that, the week begins with a live piano concert from London’s Wigmore Hall given by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Elisabeth Brauss. She demonstrates her versatility with a diverse programme of music by Mozart, Bartók, Messiaen and Chopin.

1pm
Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Presented by Hannah French.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in F major, K. 332

Béla Bartók
14 Bagatelles, Op. 6

Olivier Messiaen
Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus: No. 15, Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jésus

Fryderyk Chopin
Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49

Elisabeth Brauss (piano)

2pm

BBC Orchestra:
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 2 Trumpets in C major, RV. 537
Thomas Fountain (trumpet)
Gwyn Own (trumpet)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

BBC Orchestra:
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of the Fugue (Nos. 1, 4, 7, 9)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

BBC New Generation Artist:
Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio No. 45 in E-flat major, Hob. 15:29
Astatine Trio

BBC Orchestra:
Maurice Ravel
Tombeau de Couperin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Gemma New (conductor)

Artist Feature:
Wilhelmine von Bayreuth
Flute Sonata in A minor
Taya König-Tarasevich (traverso)
Veritá Baroque

BBC New Generation Artist:
Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
Oleg Shebeta-Dragan (clarinet)
NOVO Quartet

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