Bruckner's Ninth Symphony

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

This week on Classical Live, we have music inspired by artwork, including Debussy's La Mer performed by the Ulster Orchestra and conductor Carlos Kalmar. The centrepiece of today's programme is a performance of Bruckner's monumental Symphony No. 9 in D minor, performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sir Simon Rattle.

Fiona also has a spotlight on the Danish national baroque orchestra Concerto Copenhagen. Today, we hear them perform music by Andreas Kirchhoff, and there's another chance to catch this week's featured new composition in the Radio 3 series marking key historical events from the first twenty five years of the century.

Claude Debussy
La Mer
Ulster Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar (conductor)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Giorgi Gigashvili (piano)

Andreas Kirchhoff
Suite à4 in G minor
Concerto Copenhagen

Antonín Dvořák
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 26
Esther Hoppe (violin)
Christian Poltéra (cello)
Hiroko Sakagami (piano)

Radio 3's 25 for 25: 2013
Elena Kats-Chernin
In Rainbow Promise
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Clara Schumann
3 Romances, Op. 22
Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Andrei Banciu (piano)

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

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