Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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

All week, Elizabeth is featuring brilliant performances from the Perth Piano Series. Today we’ll hear Jeneba Kanneh-Mason in Chopin, with his Two Nocturnes and his dramatic Second Sonata, and Nikita Lukinov performs Arno Babadjanian’s Six Pictures for piano.

We are also shining a light on the BBC performing groups across the week on Classical Live and today the BBC National Orchestra of Wales play music by Louise Farrenc, Anna Clyne, Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9.

Plus BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. Today, violinist and co-founder of the Manchester Collective Rakhi Singh commemorates the Manchester Arena Bombing which took place on 22nd May 2017, in her piece There is Nothing in the Sky, recorded by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Maurice Ravel
Tombeau de Couperin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph Koenig (conductor)

Frederic Chopin
Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 35
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)

Louise Farrenc
Overture No. 2
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph Koenig (conductor)

25 for 25:
Rakhi Singh
There is Nothing in the Sky
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Lee Reynolds (conductor)

Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in D, RV208 ‘Il Grosso Mogul’
Rachel Podger (violin and director)
Brecon Baroque

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op.70
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph Koenig (conductor)

Arno Babadjanian
6 Pictures for piano
Nikita Lukinov (piano)

Anna Clyne
Glasslands
Jess Gillam (saxophone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Christoph Koenig (conductor)

Scarlatti
Sonata in A Major, K 24
Sonata in F Minor, K 466
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, (piano)

Chopin
2 Nocturnes, Op. 27
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)

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