Strauss' Don Quixote played by the European Union Youth Orchestra

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Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe. This week, Classical Live presents exclusive live recordings from some of the best youth orchestras in Europe; we’ll also hear performances by some of the brilliant young musicians currently enrolled in the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, in a recent season of lunchtime concerts at St George’s Bristol. We finish the week with the European Union Youth Orchestra, which has members drawn from the 27 members states of the European Union, and their performance of Don Quixote Op.35 by Richard Strauss. We’ll also hear more from BBC Radio 3 New Generation artists Julius Asal and the NOVO Quartet. Johannes Brahms Quintet for clarinet and strings in B minor, Op.115 Oleg Shebeta-Dragan, clarinet NOVO Quartet Richard Strauss Don Quixote Op.35 Nicolas Altstaedt, cello European Union Youth Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, conductor Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, D 571: 1st movement (Allegro moderato) Julius Asal, piano Sergei Prokofiev Pensees Op.62 Julius Asal, piano Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 6 in D, op. 60 National Youth Orchestra of Slovakia Sophie Dervaux, conductor