Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto

Compelling exclusive concert performances including Martha Argerich performing Beethoven's 2nd Piano Concerto and Marc-Andre Hamelin playing transcriptions of Wagner. Introduced by Linton Stephens.

Throughout the week we’re hearing from concerts given by British orchestras on tour in Europe. Today we hear the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra performing music from Roberto Gerhard's ballet Don Quixote at a concert given in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria.

We continue our showcase of piano transcriptions, with Marc-André Hamelin performing another of Liszt’s arrangements of Wagner – his aria O du mein holder Abendstern from Tannhauser – as well as a solo piano account of Beethoven’s song cycle An die ferne Geliebte. And there's more pianistic Beethoven from the legendary Martha Argerich, who joins the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra for the Second Piano Concerto with conductor Renaud Capuçon.

Plus we shine our Artist Spotlight on current Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Chaos String Quartet. Today we hear them champion a lesser-known quartet by the early 20th-century Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans.

1pm
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Martha Argerich (piano)
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Renaud Capuçon (conductor)

Georg Phillipp Telemann
Affettuoso and Presto (Sonata TWV 41:d4)
Forma Antiqva

Henriëtte Bosmans
String Quartet
Chaos String Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven arr. Franz Liszt
An die ferne Geliebte, S. 469
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

Richard Wagner arr. Franz Liszt
O du mein holder Abendstern (Tannhauser), S. 444
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

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