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The first concert in our week-long focus on young artists on Radio 3 "Take 5". Tonight's concert comes from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Rebecca Tong conducts cellist Yukyung Na and the RNCM Symphony Orchestra for Schumann's lyrical, flowing cello concerto. In the second half of the concert Vassily Sinaisky takes the helm for Mahler's virtuosic orchestral tour-de-force, his Symphony No 5. The students were keen to give the audience something out of the ordinary so treated them, and us, to a surprise as well.
Elizabeth Alker presents.

Part 1
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor*

Interval
Elizabeth talks to three graduate students about their thoughts on preparing for a career in classical music.

Part 2
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor+

Yukyung Na (cello)
Rebecca Tong (conductor)*
Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)+
RNCM Symphony Orchestra

1st VIOLINS
Jody Smith (leader), Xander Croft, Elizabeth Lister, Isabella Baker, Amelia Dew, Jocelyn Lau, Dylan Edge, Cheuk Lam Lai, Elyena Clap, James Warburton, William McGahon, John Phillips, Mollie Wrafter, Jade Segler, John Hutchinson
2nd VIOLINS
William Chadwick, Didier Osindero, Susanna Griffin, Pijus Jonusas, Dylan Latham, Andrew Birse, Lucy Noden, Yinkai Zhao, Rebecca Howell, Eliette Harris, Alice Flannery, Samy Okuma-Chin
VIOLAS
Rebecca Stephenson, Chance Freeman, Emily Lois Davies, Jenny Key, Anthony Jones, Dominic Adams, Xin He, Gabriel-Teodor Dirtu, Karl Egeland, Abigail Hammett, Adonis Lau
CELLOS
Gunda Baranauskaite, Jacob Barns, Chloe Randall​, Kotryna Siugzdinyte​, Abigail Davies, Rosie Spinks​, Xiaodi Zhao​, Peter Phelan, Prudence Carter-Phillips​
BASSES
Marcus de Oliveira, Thomas Betts, Nigel Smith, Richard Walsh, Filipe Modafferi Dandalo, Ria Nolan, Ziqi Li
FLUTES
Leila Marshall, Lok-Yin Hui, Carina Udriste, Jack Rainey
OBOES
Heather Cossins, Jessica Vinson, Jessica Holmes
CLARINETS
Michael Yun-S Choi, Andrew Broome, Seb Marshall
BASSOONS
Holly Redshaw, Eleanor Mills, Ching Ho Man
HORNS
Sophie Bell, Molly Edwards, Jack Sindall, Robert Mehlig, Emily Douglas, Tom Edwards, Lauren Collings
TRUMPETS
Ben Jarvis, Tom Watts, Dominic Longhurst, Gray Tracy, Daniel Tarrant, Liam Orr
TROMBONES
Sheung Yin Chan, Charlotte Horsfield, Joshua Cargill
TUBA
Harry Cunningham
TIMPANI
Paula O'Malley
PERCUSSION
Leonardo Caleffi, Abby Chan, Darren Gallacher, Abigail Flood
HARP
Kathryn Mason