A New Years' Eve celebration of live music

Elizabeth Alker brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making. In today's programme we continue this week's exploration of Viennese composers complementing tomorrow's much anticipated New Year's Day Concert from the Austrian capital. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Franz Schmidt, the Ulster Orchestra perform the great Double Concerto for violin and cello by Brahms and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra waltz us through Strauss' Künstlerleben. Plus, we celebrate the New Generation Artist class of 2023-2025. Today, pianist Alim Beisembayev plays items from Liszt's virtuosic Ètudes d’exécution transcendante. Adn by way of contrast, the Capricornus Consort, Basel continue its journey through the Music Book for Anna Magdalena Bach.

Franz Schmidt
Notre Dame (Act 1, Intermezzo & Carnival Music)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jonathan Berman (conductor)

Franz Liszt
Ètudes d’exécution transcendante, S. 139
- Ricordanza
- Allegro agitato molto
Alim Beisembayev (piano)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Pièce d'orgue in G, BWV. 572
Capricornus Consort, Basel
Péter Barczi (violin and artistic leader)

Johannes Brahms
Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, Op. 102
Francesca Dego (violin)
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)
Ulster Orchestra

Johann Strauss (II)
Künstlerleben, waltz, Op. 316
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Henrik Schaefer (conductor)

Peter Maxwell Davies
An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

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