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Live from Salford - presented by Sarah Walker.
The Â鶹Éç Philharmonic performing at MediaCity with repertoire including two pieces by the Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim, his Pastorale variee for clarinet, harp and string orchestra, and his piece Pan, featuring soprano Claudia Barainsky, performed as bookends. In the middle comes Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Anastasia Kobekina. The orchestra is conducted by Omer Meir Wellber.
Then the afternoon continues with Penny Gore presenting excerpts from a concert given recently by the Â鶹Éç Singers in which conductor Sofi Jeannin explored German Romantic repertoire, including Abendfeier in Vendedig by Clara Schumann and some arrangements for choir of songs by Schubert.
Next come two pieces by Detlev Glanert, taken from the recent Â鶹Éç SO’s Total Immersion season dedicated to the German composer's work, first his Three Pieces for viola and piano followed by one of his Three Songs on poems by Christoph Klimke, performed by musicians from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
It's followed by the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra with music that lays down roots in ritual and lament. After the meditative stillness of Arvo Pärt’s sonic sculpture in memory of a dear colleague, we hear the fruits of the first Greek composer ever commissioned for the Â鶹Éç SO’s Barbican concerts: Dimitrios Skyllas’s Kyrie Eleison.

2.00pm - Live from Salford
Ben-Haim: Pastorale variee for clarinet, harp and string orchestra
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Ben-Haim: Pan*

John Bradbury, clarinet
Anastasia Kobekina, cello
Claudia Barainsky*, soprano
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

3.15pm
Clara Schumann: Abendfeier in Venedig
Schubert, arr. Lydia Smallwood: An die Musik*
Schubert: Psalm 43*
Brahms: Six Quartets op.112*

Richard Pearce, piano*
Â鶹Éç Singers
Sofi Jeannin, conductor

3.50pm
Glanert: Three Pieces Op.1, for viola and piano (1982)
Agnieszka Zyniewicz, viola
Matthew Gemmill, piano

Glanert: Three Songs on Poems by Christoph Klimke – no.1; Schatten schlafen (2014)
Jonathan De Garis, baritone
Matthew Gemmill, piano

4.10pm
Arvo Part: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Dimitrios Skyllas: Kyrie Eleison (World Premiere; Â鶹Éç & Onassis Cultural Centre co-commission)

Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano, conductor