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Strauss' Don Quixote played by the European Union Youth Orchestra

Elizabeth showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond, including Dvorak’s Symphony No.6 and Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote.

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

This week, Classical Live presents exclusive live recordings from some of the best youth orchestras in Europe; we’ll also hear performances by some of the brilliant young musicians currently enrolled in the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, in a recent season of lunchtime concerts at St George’s Bristol.

We finish the week with the European Union Youth Orchestra, which has members drawn from the 27 members states of the European Union, and their performance of Don Quixote Op.35 by Richard Strauss. We’ll also hear more from BBC Radio 3 New Generation artists Julius Asal and the NOVO Quartet.

Johannes Brahms
Quintet for clarinet and strings in B minor, Op.115
Oleg Shebeta-Dragan, clarinet
NOVO Quartet

Richard Strauss
Don Quixote Op.35
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
European Union Youth Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, D 571: 1st movement (Allegro moderato)
Julius Asal, piano

Sergei Prokofiev
Pensees Op.62
Julius Asal, piano

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 6 in D, op. 60
National Youth Orchestra of Slovakia
Sophie Dervaux, conductor

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115

    Performer: Oleg Shebeta-Dragan. Ensemble: NOVO Quartet.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Descendi in hortum nucum

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Nana Forte

    En ego campana

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.

  • Aoife Ní Bhriain

    Woven

    Composer: Catrin Finch. Performer: Aoife Ní Bhriain. Performer: Catrin Finch.
    • Double You.
    • ARC Music Productions International Ltd.
    • 7.

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Quixote, Op. 35

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Orchestra: European Union Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.

  • Edward Elgar

    Nimrod, from 'Enigma Variations, Op. 36' (encore)

    Orchestra: European Union Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.

  • Julius Asal

    NGA Lunchtime Concerts at St George's, Bristol

  • Edvard Grieg

    4 Symphonic dances Op.64 (no.3)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2 etc..
    • ERATO.
    • 12.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No. 6 in D, Op. 60

    Orchestra: Slovenský mládežnícky orchester. Conductor: Sophie Dervaux.

  • Eugen Suchon

    Aká si mi krásna

    Orchestra: Slovenský mládežnícky orchester. Conductor: Sophie Dervaux.

Broadcast

  • Last Friday13:00
    BBC Radio 3