Pianist Richard Goode live from Wigmore Hall

Mark Forrest brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making, including a live concert from London's Wigmore Hall and highlights from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Deriving inspiration from John Collier's book 'Fancies and Goodnights', pianist Richard Goode has chosen music that is intimate, surprising and full of character. Spanning more than four centuries, the programme brings together composers as diverse as Mozart, Schoenberg, Byrd, Rameau, Schubert and Janáček.

Elsewhere, in the program, there is contrasting orchestral and chamber music from across Germany. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, brings Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances to life, alongside Arvo Pärt’s Greater Antiphons, a work of profound stillness and ritual beauty.

From the Imperial Hall Concerts, Füssen, comes Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat, the Gassenhauer, a spirited and witty work for clarinet, cello and piano. Its playful finale takes a popular tune and transforms it through a series of inventive variations.

Live from Wigmore Hall and presented by Petroc Trelawny

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in A minor K310

Arnold Schoenberg
6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19

Carlo Gesualdo
O vos omnes

William Byrd
My Ladye Nevells Booke:
The Second Pavane and Galliarde
The Third Pavane and Galliarde

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Pièces de clavecin avec une methode pour la mechanique des Doigts: V. Le rappel des oiseaux
5 Pièces de clavecin en concerts: V. L’indiscrette

Christoph Willibald Gluck
Melody from Orfeo ed Euridice (transcribed by Giovanni Sgambati)

Georges Bizet
L’Arlésienne Suite No.1: III. Adagietto (transcribed by Leopold Godowsky)

Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Miscellanea Op. 16: Légende No. 1 in A flat No. 1

Franz Schubert
Ungarische Melodie in B minor D817

Leoš Janáček
On an Overgrown Path: VII. Good Night!

Richard Goode (piano)

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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Imperial Hall Concerts, Füssen:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio No. 4 in B flat, Op. 11 ('Gassenhauer')
Ib Hausmann (clarinet)
Samuel Shepherd (cello)
Mengjie Han (piano)

Arvo Pärt
Greater Antiphons
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

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