New Generation Artists - Daniela Lehner, 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 fourth of ten early-evening programmes over the Christmas period, we hear studio performances by some of the scheme's current members, including tonight the Austrian mezzo-soprano Daniela Lehner in songs by Wilhlem Kienzl, and two newcomers to the scheme: British jazz clarinettist and, from the USA, the Escher String Quartet playing Haydn's 'Joke' Quartet. FULL PROGRAMME Hutchings/Joseph Dog-eared Book Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet), Julian Joseph (piano) Pierpont, arr. Joseph Jingle Bells in 9/8 Shabaka Hutchings (clarinet), Julian Joseph (piano) Kienzl: Song selection Daniela Lehner (mezzo-soprano), Jose Luis Gayo (piano) Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 No. 2 'Joke' Escher String Quartet.