Alfred Brendel plays Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto

Mark Forrest continues his week of specially recorded music and performances from Europe and beyond. Today we hear another superb archive recording of Alfred Brendel performing Beethoven - this week's historic cycle of Beethoven concertos reaches Piano Concerto No.3 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. And there’s more piano music from two of the prize winners from the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition too: the Canadian Jaedan Isik-Dzurko, and Khanh Nhi Luong from Vietnam, both performing in concerts recorded last month at London’s Wigmore Hall.

Including:

Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite (vers. with winds)
BBC Philharmonic
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 4 in D, BWV. 828
Jaedan Izik-Dzurko (piano)

Ralph Vaughan Williams orch. Martin Yates: The Steersman
Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Martin Yates (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op. 37
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

Johannes Brahms:
Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 118 No.1
Intermezzo in A, Op. 118 No .2
Khanh Nhi Luong (piano)

Heinrich Biber: Sonata No.6 in C minor, 'The Agony in the Garden'
Rachel Podger (violin)
Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord)

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