New Generation Artists - Benjamin Grosvenor, Alexandra Soumm, Escher String Quartet, Shabaka Hutchings

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 final programme in our Christmas showcase, we hear studio performances by some of the scheme's current members, including tonight violinist Alexandra Soumm in Lutoslawski's Subito, the Escher String Quartet from the USA in Beethoven's F major Quartet, Op. 59 No.1 and Benjamin Grosvenor in the solo piano version of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. FULL PROGRAMME Sousa arr. Horowitz: The Stars and Stripes forever Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) Hutchings/Joseph At Rest Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet), Julian Joseph (piano) Lutoslawski: Subito Alexandra Soumm (violin), Aimo Pagin (piano) Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 59 No. 1 Escher String Quartet Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Benjamin Grosvenor (piano).