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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.

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra are our ensemble in focus this week, with Sebastian Berner joining them as soloist in Haydn’s beloved Trumpet Concerto today.

We’re also spending time all week in the picturesque East Neuk of Fife, hearing music recorded specially for us at the East Neuk Festival in June. Today, the Belcea Quartet play one of Beethoven’s late, great quartets, and principal clarinettist of the London Symphony Orchestra Sergio Pres is joined by violist Emma Wernig and pianist Chiyan Wong for music by Robert Schumann.

Plus we’re back in Bucharest with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields playing Prokofiev’s First Symphony, nicknamed the ‘Classical’, from their recent concert at the at the George Enescu International Festival.

1pm
Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Sebastian Berner (trumpet)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Alain Altinoglu (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131
Belcea Quartet

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, ‘Classical’
Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Francesca Caccini
Sinfonia and Bergamasca
Capella de la Torre
Katharina Bauml (director)

Dorothy Howell
Lamia
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic Orchestra
Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Robert Schumann
Märchenerzählungen, Op.132
Sergio Pires (clarinet)
Emma Wernig (viola)
Chiyan Wong (piano)

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