A New Years' Eve celebration of live music

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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) To listen to this programme (using most smart speakers) just say 'Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live'.