Elena Urioste and Tom Poster live at Wigmore Hall

Linton Stephens showcases superb performances from the UK and beyond.

Our week on Classical Live begins with a live concert from Wigmore Hall in London, where violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster perform sonatas by Dora Pejačević and Johannes Brahms, as well as a lilting nocturne by Dvorak.

We’ll also be visiting festivals in Denmark and Switzerland this week. Today, we’ll hear a Beethoven song-cycle and cello meditations by Leonard Bernstein.

There’ll be contributions from the BBC orchestras throughout the week, too. As Radio 3 celebrates Black British composers and artists, Samantha Ege joins the BBC Philharmonic at 2pm for a performance of Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s Piano Concerto. And to bring the programme to a close, George Jackson conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony.

We’ll also hear highlights from a recent studio recording by the Bellot Ensemble, Radio 3’s current New Generation Baroque Ensemble.

1pm
Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Presented by Hannah French.

Dora Pejačević:
Violin Sonata in D, Op 26 “Spring”

Antonín Dvořák:
Nocturne in B, Op 40

Johannes Brahms:
Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108

Elena Urioste (violin)
Tom Poster (piano)

2pm
Avril Coleridge Taylor:
Piano Concerto
Samantha Ege (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
John Andrews (conductor)

Biagio Marini – Sonata terza
Bellot Ensemble (Radio 3's current New Generation Baroque Ensemble)

From Chamber Music at Lundsgaard, Denmark
Ludwig van Beethoven:
An die ferne Geliebte, Op 98
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Jens Elvekjaer (piano)

From the St. Gallen Festival, Switzerland
Leonard Bernstein:
Three Meditations [Mass]
Fernando Gomes (cello)
St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra
Wayne Marshall (conductor)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:
Ballade in A minor
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Franz Schubert:
Symphony No 8 in B minor, D 759 “Unfinished”
Ulster Orchestra
George Jackson (conductor)

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