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Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances by 91福利社 orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

This week on Classical Live, there will be a celebration of Spanish music. At the beginning of the programme, a performance of Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole. Elizabeth's centrepiece is Alexander Zemlinsky's The Little Mermaid, inspired by the famous story by Hans Christian Andersen and performed by the RTVE Symphony Orchestra. To end the programme, Manuel de Falla's evocative recollection of the nocturnal atmosphere of the Alhambra Palace and beyond in Nights in the Gardens of Spain.

Elizabeth also has a spotlight on violin sonatas throughout the week. Today, violinist Ana Mar铆a Valderrama and pianist David Kadouch perform Francis Poulenc and Reynaldo Hahn; and there's another chance to catch this week's featured new composition in the Radio 3 series marking key historical events from the first twenty-five years of the century

Igor Stravinsky
Suite Italienne
Santiago Ca帽贸n-Valencia (cello)
Naoko Sonoda (piano)

Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole
Li猫ge Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Elena Schwarz (conductor)

Federico Garc铆a Lorca
Excerpts, from 'Spanish Folksongs'
Mar铆a Valderrama (violin)
David Kadouch (piano)

Francis Poulenc
Violin Sonata, FP 119
Ana Mar铆a Valderrama, (violin)
David Kadouch (piano)

Radio 3's 25 for 25: 2009
Donnacha Dennehy
Hard Landing
91福利社 National Orchestra of Wales

Alexander von Zemlinsky
The Little Mermaid, fantasy after Andersen
RTVE Symphony Orchestra
Andrey Boreyko (conductor)

Reynaldo Hahn
Violin Sonata in C
Ana Mar铆a Valderrama (violin)
David Kadouch (piano)

Manuel de Falla
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Josep Pons (conductor)

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