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From the Royal Albert Hall, London. The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly, with Saleem Abboud Ashkar (piano) in Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Donald Macleod.
Radio 3's 2009 Mendelssohn bicentenary celebrations continue with Riccardo Chailly conducting the orchestra of which the composer himself was music director for the last 12 years of his life. Palestinian-Israeli pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar is soloist in Mendelssohn's youthful First Concerto which he completed in just three days at the age of 22.
Saleem Abboud Ashkar (piano)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25.
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