Wigmore 125: Brahms' Piano Quintet

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The Leonkoro Quartet and pianist Igor Levit mark Wigmore Hall's 125th anniversary with a masterpiece by Brahms and exclusive orchestral music by Beethoven and Strauss from American conductor Karina Canellakis. As part of the Wigmore Hall’s 125th anniversary celebrations, we’ll be hearing specially recorded performances from the celebrated London venue's current festival. Today, former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Leonkoro Quartet join with German pianist Igor Levit for a performance of Brahms's thrilling Piano Quintet, alongside music by Mendelssohn and Haydn. Today’s celebrated conductor spot is taken by the American Karina Canellakis, one of the most in-demand conductors of her generation. We’ll hear her conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Beethoven’s Second Symphony and Richard Strauss’s tone-poem Death and Transfiguration; and also Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody with soloist Sophie Harmsen and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, of whom Karina is the Chief Conductor. Introduced by Elizabeth Alker: Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Leonkoro Quartet Richard Strauss Tod und Verklärung Op. 24 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Karina Canellakis (conductor) Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Karina Canellakis (conductor) Johannes Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 Igor Levit (piano) Leonkoro Quartet Johannes Brahms Alto Rhapsody, op. 53 Sophie Harmsen, alto Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir Karina Canellakis (conductor) Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Leonkoro Quartet