Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony

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Linton Stephens with another programme of specially recorded performances from the UK and abroad. Pianist Mihály Berecz performs Hungarian music by Bartok and Liszt, and we hear Haydn’s ‘Bird’ Quartet from former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Leonkoro Quartet. This week’s featured ensemble The Ulster Orchestra opens the programme with Sibelius’s deeply romantic Suite King Christian II; they’re joined by Irish pianist Finghin Collins for a performance of Stanford’s 2nd Piano Concerto, composed as a direct response to hearing Rachmaninov’s 2nd Concerto, and the Ulster Orchestra end today with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 – a piece full of orchestral brilliance. Jean Sibelius King Christian II Suite Ulster Orchestra Junping Qian (conductor) Franz Liszt 2 Concert etudes, S.145 Mihály Berecz (piano) Joseph Haydn String Quartet in C major, Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’ Leonkoro Quartet Charles Villiers Stanford Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126 Finghin Collins (piano) Ulster Orchestra Jac van Steen (conductor) Pierre de Manchicourt Laudate Dominum Bavarian Radio Chorus Denis Comtet (conductor) Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 13 in A minor ‘Rosamunde’, D. 804 Aris Quartett Antonio Vivaldi Flute Concerto in F, RV. 570 'La tempesta di mare' Daniela Lieb (flute) Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann (oboe) Eyal Streett (bassoon) Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Cecilia Bernardini (conductor) Bela Bartok 3 Burlesques, Sz. 47 Mihály Berecz (piano) Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 9 in B flat, Op. 60 Ulster Orchestra Jonathan Bloxham (conductor) To listen to this programme using most smart speakers, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Classical Live."