Mark Forrest showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.
This week on Classical Live, we have music from the Barber Lunchtime Concert Series, held in Birmingham. Violist Timothy Ridout and pianist Jonathan Ware perform Franck's highly esteemed, four-movement Sonata in A major.
Mark also has a spotlight on Robert Schumann throughout the week. Today, we hear the RTVE Symphony Orchestra perform the serene and magical Nachtlied, Op. 108 and for our centrepiece, Schumann's heroic Symphony No. 3 performed by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and conductor Elim Chan.
Cesar Franck
Sonata in A major, arr. for viola & piano
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Jonathan Ware (piano)
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto Grosso in A minor, RV 356, Op. 3/6
Swiss Orchestra
Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer (director)
Robert Schumann
Nachtlied, Op. 108
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
Christoph König (conductor)
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor (the Rosamunde Quartet), D. 804, Op. 29
Aris Quartett
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Sheherazade I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)
Carl Maria von Weber
Grand Duo Concertant, Op.48
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Michael McHale (piano)
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chan (conductor)
Franz Liszt
La lugubre gondola No. 2, S. 200/2
Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
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