Tchaikovsky and Mahler live from Wigmore Hall

Elizabeth Alker brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making including a live concert from London's Wigmore Hall. Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and pianist Sergey Rybin perform music by Tchaikovsky and Mahler. Though from different cultures, the two composers admired and championed each other. Their music explores love, loss and the big questions of life, reminding us of what we share, even across borders and conflict.

Elsewhere in the program, we hear music from some of Europe’s great summer festivals. In Amsterdam, Duncan Ward conducts the South Netherlands Philharmonic in Stravinsky’s colourful and theatrical Petrushka. From the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, led by violinist Michael Waterman, perform music by Telemann, followed by André Campra’s moving Messe de Requiem with Ensemble Correspondances and conductor Sébastien Daucé.

And from the Edinburgh International Festival, the Pavel Haas Quartet perform Bohuslav Martinů’s String Quartet No. 3.

Live from Wigmore Hall:

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I bless you, forests Op. 47 No. 5
My genius, my angel, my friend
Whether by day Op. 47 No. 6
Death Op. 57 No. 5
Why? Op. 6 No. 5
The love of a dead man Op. 38 No. 5
Again, as before, alone Op. 73 No. 6

Gustav Mahler
Rückert Lieder

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The stars looked tenderly upon us Op. 60 No. 12

Gustav Mahler
Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Urlicht

Alice Coote (Mezzo-soprano)
Sergey Rybin (piano)

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Dutch Summer Concerts, Amsterdam
Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka
Philzuid (South Netherlands Philharmonic)
Duncan Ward (conductor)

Utrecht Early Music Festival
Georg Philipp Telemann
Affetuoso - Allegro, from 'Flute Concerto in F, TWV 51:f1'
Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Michael Waterman (violin, direction)

Edinburgh International Festival
Bohuslav Martinů
String quartet no.3 H.183
Pavel Haas Quartet

Utrecht Early Music Festival
André Campra
Messe de Requiem
Ensemble Correspondances
Sébastien Daucé (conductor)

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