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Winter Showcase Episode 1

Specially recorded performances of music by Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Messiaen from Radio 3's current New Generation Artists - stars of the future.

Georgia Mann celebrates the prodigious musical talents of the current members of Radio 3's young artist scheme.
In this first Winter Showcase, the award-winning Scots jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie improvises on a favourite Schubert song as played by the Chaos Quartet. Also from that series of concerts, recorded at the Britten Studio in Suffolk, the Colombian cellist Santiago CaΓ±Γ³n-Valencia gives a sublimely intimate performance of Bach's First Cello Suite. Also today, the eloquent violin of Geneva Lewis in one of Mozart's joyful violin sonatas and the pianist Giorgi Gigashvili in one of the more tender of Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-JΓ©sus. And to start, Ryan Corbett reveals a wealth of colours in his transcription for accordion of a keyboard work by Felix Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso in E, Op 14
Ryan Corbett (accordion)

Mozart: Violin Sonata No 18 in G major, K 301
Geneva Lewis (violin), Georgijs Osokins (piano)

Schubert: Die Taubenpost D.957
Schubert: An den Mond D193
James Atkinson (baritone), Hamish Brown (piano)

Bach: Cello Suite in G major BWV 1007
Santiago CaΓ±Γ³n-Valencia (cello)

Schubert / McCreadie: Du bist die Ruh D.776 and Improvisation
Fergus McCreadie (piano), Chaos Quartet

Messiaen: Le baiser de l'Enfant-JΓ©sus from Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-JΓ©sus
Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)

Emma Rawicz: Viridan
Emma Rawicz (saxophone)
with Scottie Thomson (piano), Freddie Jensen ( bass), Marc Michel (drums)

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ New Generation Artists scheme was founded in 1999 to support some of the world’s finest young instrumentalists, singers and ensembles at the start of their international careers, through performance and broadcast opportunities. The distinguished list of alumni now numbers well over a hundred, among them many of the most exciting musicians working on the world stage today.

Release date:

1 hour, 14 minutes

Broadcast

  • Boxing Day 2024 17:00