Pianist Richard Goode live from Wigmore Hall

Mark Forrest brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making including a live concert from London's Wigmore Hall and music-making from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, beginning a week focusing on recent performances from some of Germany's great orchestras.

Deriving inspiration from John Collier's book 'Fancies and Goodnights', pianist Richard Goode has chosen music that is intimate, surprising and full of character as the basis for his live Wigmore piano recital. Spanning more than four centuries, his programme brings together composers as diverse as Mozart, Schoenberg, Byrd, Rameau, Schubert and Janáček.

Elsewhere, in today's Classical Live, contrasting orchestral and chamber music from across Germany. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, brings Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances to life, alongside Arvo Pärt’s Greater Antiphons, a work of profound stillness and ritual beauty.
From the Imperial Hall Concerts in the Bavarian town of Füssen, a performance of Beethoven’s Gassenhauer - or 'Street Song '- Piano Trio, a spirited and witty work for clarinet, cello and piano. Its playful finale takes a popular tune and transforms it through a series of inventive variations.

Live from Wigmore Hall and introduced for Classical Live by Petroc Trelawny.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in A minor, K310

Arnold Schoenberg
6 Little Piano Pieces, Op 19

Carlo Gesualdo
O vos omnes

William Byrd
My Ladye Nevells Booke:
The Second Pavane and Galliarde
The Third Pavane and Galliarde

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Le rappel des oiseaux
L’indiscrette

Christoph Willibald Gluck (transcribed by Giovanni Sgambati)
Melody from Orfeo ed Euridice

Georges Bizet (transcribed by Leopold Godowsky)
L’Arlésienne Suite No 1 (3. Adagietto)

Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Légende No 1 in A flat, Op 16 No 1

Franz Schubert
Ungarische Melodie in B minor, D817

Leoš Janáček
On an Overgrown Path (7. Good Night!)

Richard Goode (piano)

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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op 45
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Imperial Hall Concerts, Füssen:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio No 4 in B flat, Op 11 ('Gassenhauer')
Ib Hausmann (clarinet)
Samuel Shepherd (cello)
Mengjie Han (piano)

Arvo Pärt
Greater Antiphons
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

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