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

The Â鶹Éç Philharmonic Orchestra is our ensemble in focus this week, and today’s programme opens with a recent performance of Edvard Grieg’s first Peer Gynt Suite given in Hull’s City Hall. There’s also symphonic music from a Korean orchestra in Poland: the KBS Symphony Orchestra perform Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 in Warsaw.

Throughout the week we’re hearing from music written by Robert Schumann in 1842, his ‘year of chamber music’. Today, the Mondrian Ensemble perform his Fantasiestücke for piano trio at a concert recorded in Zurich.

Plus we’re back at the 2025 Glenarm Festival of Voice in County Antrim, where baritone and current Radio 3 New Generation Artist gave a recital that included Claude Debussy’s Le Promenoir des deux amants.

1pm
Edvard Greig
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)

Robert Schumann
Fantasiestücke for piano trio, Op. 88
Mondrian Ensemble

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
KBS Symphony Orchestra
Pietari Inkinen (conductor)

Claude Debussy
Le Promenoir des deux amants
James Atkinson (baritone)
Simon Lepper (piano)

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