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In 2020, Â鶹Éç Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

Â鶹Éç Proms: A potent mix of old and new from the 2011 Proms, in which the youthful members of the Elias Quartet, at that time members of Â鶹Éç Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme, were joined by young clarinettist Julian Bliss, by then already established on the world’s stages. After music from the English Baroque and the present day – the latter represented by new work from Sally Beamish based on a Celtic-inspired melody – Bliss joins the quartet for Brahms’s autumnal Clarinet Quintet.

Introduced by Catherine Bott.

Purcell: Fantasia No 6 in F major
Purcell: Fantasia No 7 in C minor
Sally Beamish: Reed Stanzas (String Quartet No. 3) (Â鶹Éç commission: world premiere)
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor

Julian Bliss (clarinet)
Elias Quartet

(From the Â鶹Éç Proms, 25 July 2011)