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    Radio 3 at the City of London Festival
    20 June - 10 July

    Jaipur Kawa Brass Band credit City of London Festival

    Taking place in some of the City's most beautiful buildings, every year the City of London festival acknowledges London's historical trading partners. This year's focus is on India and Switzerland.

      Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts at 1pm

      Christian Poltera
      Tuesday 27 January 2009

      Christian Poltéra - cello
      Julius Drake - piano

      Music by Mendelssohn, Schoeck and Schubert

      Concert:       23 June, St Mary Aldermary

        Alina Ibragimova
        Wednesday 28 January 2009

        Danjulo Ishizaka - cello
        Shai Wosner - piano
        Alina Ibragimova - violin

        Music by Brahms

        Concert:         24 June, St Vedast Alias Foster

          Ronan Collett. Photo by Edward Webb
          Thursday 29 January 2009

          Ronan Collett - baritone
          Simon Lepper - piano

          Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Holst and Vaughan Williams

          Concert:           25 June, St Lawrence Jewry

            Gwilym Simcock - Radio 3 New Generation Artist
            Friday 30 January 2009

            Aronowitz Ensemble
            Gwilym Simcock             - piano

            Music by Mendelssohn, Simcock (world premiere, BBC/RPS commission)and Strauss

            Concert:             26 June, St Stephen Walbrook

              Shai Wosner
              Tuesday 3 February 2009

              Shai Wosner - piano

              Music by Schubert, Schoenberg and Beethoven

              Concert:               30 June, St Margaret Lothbury

                Cedric Tiberghien. Photo by Eric Manas
                Wednesday 4 February 2009

                Cédric Tiberghien - piano

                Music by Liszt

                Concert:                 1 July, St Andrew by the Wardrobe

                  Ingrid Fliter
                  Thursday 5 Feburary 2009

                  Ailish Tynan - soprano
                  Ingrid Fliter - piano

                  Songs by Mahler, Schubert and Wolf

                  Concert:                   2 July, St Michael Cornhill

                    Emily Beynon
                    Friday 6 Feburary 2009

                    Emily Beynon - flute
                    Cédric Tiberghien - piano

                    Music by Ravel, Messiaen, Rameau, Couperin and George Benjamin

                    Concert:                     3 July, St Mary Abchurch

                      Maxim Rysanov
                      Tuesday 10 February 2009

                      Maxim Rysanov - viola
                      Evgeny Samoyloff - piano

                      Music by Bach and Mendelssohn

                      Concert:                       7 July, St Anne & St Agnes

                        Ebene Quartet
                        Wednesday 11 February 2009

                        Ebène Quartet
                        Pavel Haas Quartet

                        Music by Haydn and Mendelssohn

                        Concert:                         8 July, St Mary-le-Bow

                          Allan Clayton
                          Thursday 12 February 2009

                          Allan Clayton - tenor
                          Simon Lepper - piano

                          Songs by Schubert, Schoeck, Honegger and Schumann

                          Concert:                           9 July, St Bride’s Fleet St

                            Colin Currie
                            Friday 13 February 2009

                            Pavel Haas Quartet
                            Colin Currie                             - percussion

                            Music by Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr (world premiere, BBC/RPS commission) and Pavel Haas

                            Concert:                             10 July, St Andrew Holborn

                              Radio 3 Performance on 3 at 7pm

                              Valery Gergiev
                              Thursday 10 July

                              London Symphony Orchestra
                              Valery Gergiev                               - conductor
                              London Symphony Chorus
                              Choristers of St Paul’s Cathedral 

                              Mahler -                                Symphony No 8 ‘Symphony of a Thousand’

                              Concert: 9 July, St Paul’s Cathedral

                                Mansion House
                                Tuesday 15 July

                                Scottish Chamber Orchestra
                                David Murphy                                 - conductor
                                Matthew Barley - cello
                                Amjad Ali Khan - sarod

                                Music by Amjad Ali Khan (London premiere), Bach,Vivaldi and Elgar

                                Concert:                                 25 June, Mansion House

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