2026 Proms season showcase - the Kleio Quartet
Haydn's 'Frog' Quartet from the Kleio Quartet and Alec Templeton's Pocket Sonata from virtuoso clarinettist Oleg Shebeta-Dragan.
Georgia Mann introduces specially recorded performances from some of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists. Today, the UK-based Kleio Quartet play Haydn at Wigmore Hall, and the Ukrainian clarinettist Oleg Shebeta-Dragan essays a groovy sonata by the Cardiff-born composer and satirist Alec Templeton.
Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op. 50 no.6 'The Frog'
Kleio Quartet
Alec Templeton: Pocket-Sized Sonata No.1 - Improvisation, Modal blues and In rhythm
Oleg Shebeta-Dragan (clarinet), Dominic Degavino (piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov: From my tears - from 4 songs, Op.2
Erika Baikoff (soprano), Sholto Kynoch (piano)
For over a quarter of a century, Radio 3’s prestigious talent scheme has provided an invaluable springboard for many of today’s leading international soloists and chamber music ensembles. Indeed, a list of the former alumni reads like a Who’s Who of the international music scene, with names like Lisa Batiashvili, Igor Levit, Sean Shibe, Alison Balsom, Mark Simpson and the Belcea Quartet.
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