A clarinet recital live from Wigmore Hall

Linton Stephens brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making including exclusive performances from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, this week's featured musicians. Today, conductor Emilia Hoving leads the orchestra in two romantic works - Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Ballade and Rachmaninov’s great swan-song - his Symphonic Dances. There is also a focus in this week’s programmes on chamber music by Ravel and Haydn and Linton brings us recent performances from the acclaimed young Dutch piano duo, Lucas and Arthur Jussen who perform a masterpiece by Schubert.

But the programme begins at London's Wigmore Hall with clarinettist Michael Collins and pianist Wu Qian. They open with Gerald Finzi’s quintessential English Bagatelles, before embracing the Sonatina by Martinů, written in post-war New York yet infused with the vitality of pre-war Paris, and music by two members of Les Six. The programme ends with the lyrical Clarinet Sonata by Arnold Cooke, a Cambridge-educated Yorkshireman who studied with Paul Hindemith in Berlin in the 1920s.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, introduced for Classical Live by Hannah French:

Gerald Finzi
5 Bagatelles Op. 23

Bohuslav Martinu
Sonatina for clarinet and piano

Darius Milhaud
Duo concertante Op. 351

Germaine Tailleferre
Arabesque

Arnold Cooke
Sonata in B flat for clarinet and piano

Michael Collins (clarinet)
Wu Qian (piano)

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Maurice Ravel
Menuet sur le nom de Haydn, M. 58
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Jan Lisiecki (conductor)

Joseph Haydn
Keyboard Trio No. 45 in E flat, Hob. XV:29
Esther Hoppe (violin)
Christian Poltéra (cello)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)

Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Ballade
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Thomas Sondergard (conductor)

Franz Schubert
Fantasie in F minor for Piano Four-Hands, D. 940
Jussen Piano Duo

Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Emilia Hoving (conductor)

Maurice Ravel
Violin Sonata No 2 in G major
Johan Dalene (violin)
Charles Owen (piano)

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