Richard Strauss at the Elbphilharmonie

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

Throughout the week we are spending time in the spectacular Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, with a series of recordings made in the eye-catching 2017 concert hall by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. Two superstar soloists join the orchestra today, with violinist Augustin Hadelich playing Prokofiev’s second Violin Concerto and pianist Kirill Gerstein the soloist in Richard Strauss’s Burleske. Plus there’s more Strauss, his dramatic early tone poem Death and Transfiguration.

Following on from yesterday’s live concert from London’s Wigmore Hall, we hear more from the superb Baroque ensemble Vox Luminis, who specialise in lesser-known gems from the period. Today, they tell us the Old Testament story of Jonah, through the music of 17th-century Italian composer Giacomo Carissimi.

And we’ll be heading back to Wigmore Hall to hear highlights from Classical Live recitals given there last year by pianist Anne Queffélec and the Calidore Quartet.

1pm
Richard Strauss
Burleske for piano and orchestra
Kirill Gerstein (piano)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Joseph Haydn
Overture to an English Opera
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)

A set of French miniatures:
Claude Debussy - Images, Series 1: Reflets dans l'eau; Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune
Gabriel Dupont - Les heures dolentes: Après-midi de dimanche
Reynaldo Hahn - Le rossignol éperdu: Hivernale; Le banc songeur
Charles Koechlin - Paysages et marines Op. 63: Chant de pêcheurs
Florent Schmitt - Musiques intimes, Book 2 Op. 29: Glas
Anne Queffélec (piano)

Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklärung [Death and transfiguration], Op. 24
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Andris Poga (conductor)

Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 54
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
Juraj Valčuha (conductor)

Carlos Gardel
Por una cabeza
Augustin Hadelich (violin)

Giacomo Carissimi
Historia di Jonas [The Story of Jonas]
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier (conductor)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 34
Calidore Quartet

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