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Linton Stephens showcases the best performances by Â鶹Éç orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

All week, Linton is featuring brilliant performances from the Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra including a rich selection of concertos including familiar favourites and the intriguing new. The programme opens with Brahms's technically demanding Violin Concerto performed by soloist Ning Feng. Plus, we will hear Tubin's expressive Concerto for Double Bass performed by Gyunam Kim.

We are also shining a light on piano music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Today German pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati performs one fo JS Bach's great keyboard Partitas.

Plus Â鶹Éç Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. Today, Karl Jenkins and Welsh poet and author Grahame Davies commemorate those who lost their lives to the global Covid pandemic. 'The Signs Still Point The Way ' is performed by the Â鶹Éç Singers and Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra.

Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto
Ning Feng (violin)
Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Antony Hermus (conductor)

Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op.13
Elias String Quartet

25 for 25:
Karl Jenkins
The Signs Still Point The Way
Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra
Â鶹Éç Singers

Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828
Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano)

Eduard Tubin
Concerto for Double Bass
Gyunam Kim (double Bass)
Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Anu Tali (conductor)

Benjamin Britten
Suite on English folk tunes
Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say "Ask Â鶹Éç Sounds to play Classical Live".