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Highlights from the Leeds International Piano Competition and from the Edinburgh International Festival

Linton Stephens with highlights from the Leeds International Piano Competition, chamber music from the Edinburgh International Festival & Bernstein from the WDR Symphony Orchestra

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

This week on Classical Live we're bringing you highlights from this year’s Leeds International Piano Competition, with performances from two of the ten semi-finalists each day, looking forward to the Finals this coming weekend.

There’s also chamber music from last month’s Edinburgh International Festival – today includes Haydn from the Chiarascuro Quartet and guitar music from Raphaël Feuillâtre.

And Constantinos Carydis conducts the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, in Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s Symposium.

1pm
Alice Mary Smith
Overture: The Masque of Pandora
Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo(conductor)

From the Edinburgh International Festival:
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 33 No. 4
Chiaroscuro Quartet

Agustin Barrios Mangore
La Catedral
Raphaël Feuillâtre (guitar)

1.45pm from the Leeds International Piano Competition
Highlights from this year's semi-finalists

Giuseppe Tartini
Violin Sonata in G minor, Op.1 No.10 “Didone Abbandonataâ€
Europa Galante
Fabio Bondi (conductor)

Leonard Bernstein
Serenade after Plato’s Symposium
Midori (violin)
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Constantinos Carydis (conductor)

Linda Catlin Smith
Adagietto
Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

3.15pm from the Leeds International Piano Competition
Highlights from thsi year's semi-finalists

From the Edinburgh International Festival:
Miguel Llobet
El Noy de la Mare
Cançó del lladre
Raphaël Feuillâtre (guitar)

27 days left to listen

2 hours, 58 minutes

Music Played

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Overture - The Masque of Pandora

    Orchestra: Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op.33 No 4

    Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.
  • Agustín Barrios Mangoré

    La Catedral

    Performer: Raphaël Feuillâtre.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Sonata No. 1 in D Minor Op. 28

    Performer: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Sonata in G minor, Op. 1/10 ('Didone abbandonata')

    Performer: Europa Galante. Conductor: Fabio Biondi.
  • Leonard Bernstein

    Serenade, after Plato's 'Symposium'

    Performer: Midori. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Constantinos Carydis.
  • Miguel Llobet Solés

    El Noi de la Mare & Canco del lladre

    Performer: Raphaël Feuillâtre.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 1 in D major, K 412

    Performer: Anthony Halstead. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition

    Performer: Elizaveta Kliuchereva.

Broadcast

  • Tuesday 13:00