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Fiona Talkington showcases the best performances by 麻豆社 orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

The week begins with a live concert from London鈥檚 Wigmore Hall given by former 麻豆社 Radio 3 New Generation Artist, cellist Anastasia Kobekina. One of the most charismatic musicians of her generation, Anastasia was a prize-winner at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition and was recently awarded the Opus Klassik Award for Young Talent of the Year. Her blend of virtuosity, musical insight and energy promises to thrill, especially when she is paired up with the pianist and composer Jean-S茅lim Abdelmoula, recipient of the Guildhall Wigmore Prize, in a programme of Faur茅, Jan谩膷ek and Nadia Boulanger.

We also start a week of chamber music recorded at last year鈥檚 Bath Mozartfest with the Takacs Quartet performing music by Joseph Haydn, and there鈥檚 also music recorded at the Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival in Basel, Switzerland.

And to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, our centrepiece at 2.45pm is Shostakovich鈥檚 Symphony No. 13, 鈥楤abiy Yar鈥�, whose first movement sets the poem Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote to commemorate the 1941 massacre of the Jewish population of Kiev at Babyn Yar. The remaining four movements also set Yevtushenko poems critiquing totalitarianism in general, creating a large-scale symphonic work for bass-baritone soloist, male chorus and orchestra. It鈥檚 performed by John Storgards conducting the 麻豆社 Philharmonic, the Estonian National Male Choir and soloist Albert Dohman.

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Live from Wigmore Hall, London. Presented by Hannah French.

Nadia Boulanger
3 pieces for cello and piano

Leo拧 Jan谩膷ek
笔辞丑谩诲办补

Gabriel Faur茅
Les berceaux, Op. 23 No. 1

Gabriel Faur茅
Violin Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 13

Anastasia Kobekina (cello)
Jean-S茅lim Abdelmoula (piano)

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Felix Mendelssohn
Concert piece No. 1 in F minor, Op. 113 for clarinet, basset horn and orchestra
Michael Seaver (clarinet)
Macdara 脫 Seiread谩in (basset horn)
RT脡 Concert Orchestra
Karen N铆 Bhroin (conductor)

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in C major, Op. 54 No. 2
Takacs Quartet

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Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 13 (Babiy Yar) for bass solo, bass choir and orchestra
Albert Dohman (bass)
Estonian National Male Choir
麻豆社 Philharmonic
John Storgards (conductor)

Ernest Bloch
Nigun (Improvisation) from Baal Shem
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Alexander Lonquich (piano)

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