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New Generation Artists - Veronika Eberle, Giuliano Sommerhalder, Nicolas Altstaedt, ATOS Trio

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The Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme exists to provide support to some of the brightest talents in the world of classical music, and in the ten years of its existence has numbered artists such as the Belcea String Quartet, Paul Lewis, Janine Jansen, Natalie Clein and Alice Coote among its distinguished members. In the ninth of ten early-evening programmes over the Christmas period, we hear studio performances by some of the scheme's current members, including tonight violinist Veronika Eberle in Prokofiev, trumpeter Giuliano Sommerhalder playing Tomasi, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt in music by Barriere, pianist Francesco Piemontesi in a suite by Handel, and the ATOS Trio in Beethoven's Piano Trio, Op. 11 FULL PROGRAMME Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 2 Veronika Eberle (violin), Oliver Schnyder (piano) Tomasi: Triptyque Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet), Kasia Wieczorek (piano) Barrière: Sonata in G major for 2 cellos Nicolas Altstaedt & Jonathan Cohen (cellos) Handel: Suite in B flat major, HWV434 Francesco Piemontesi (piano) Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major, Op. 11 ATOS Trio.