2026 Proms season showcase - the Kleio Quartet

Available for 29 days

Georgia Mann introduces specially recorded performances from some of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists. Today, the UK-based Kleio Quartet play Haydn at Wigmore Hall, and the Ukrainian clarinettist Oleg Shebeta-Dragan essays a groovy sonata by the Cardiff-born composer and satirist Alec Templeton. Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op. 50 no.6 'The Frog' Kleio Quartet Alec Templeton: Pocket-Sized Sonata No.1 - Improvisation, Modal blues and In rhythm Oleg Shebeta-Dragan (clarinet), Dominic Degavino (piano) Rimsky-Korsakov: From my tears - from 4 songs, Op.2 Erika Baikoff (soprano), Sholto Kynoch (piano) For over a quarter of a century, Radio 3’s prestigious talent scheme has provided an invaluable springboard for many of today’s leading international soloists and chamber music ensembles. Indeed, a list of the former alumni reads like a Who’s Who of the international music scene, with names like Lisa Batiashvili, Igor Levit, Sean Shibe, Alison Balsom, Mark Simpson and the Belcea Quartet.