| In Concert, with host Bill Richardson Sunday February 12, 2012 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (11:30 - 3:30 NT) on CBC Radio 2 Classics both new and old are on offer this week on In Concert, beginning with highlights from the exciting 2012 Winnipeg New Music Festival. The internationally renowned Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho was the distinguished guest composer at this year's festival and we'll hear the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Mickelthwate lead a compelling account of her orchestral work entitled Du Cristal. We'll hear the Canadian premiere of So Far So Good by Nico Muhly, the brilliant young American composer who has written for film, the opera stage and the concert hall. And we'll hear music for the film Dreamland by Valgeir Sigurðsson, a fascinating composer/producer from Iceland who is at the centre of an eclectic consortium of musicians who are redefining the sound and scope of contemporary music. And Next!, our annual celebration of outstanding young Canadian musicians, continues with a recital from the award-winning mezzo-soprano Erica Iris Huang. The winner of the 2011 Eckhardt-Gramatte competition, Huang performs works by Robert Schumann, Ernest Chausson and Michael Oesterle. Cellist Ariel Barnes of Vancouver is featured this week as part of the Canadian Bach Cello Project. He'll perform Bach's Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor - a recording from CBC Studio 1 in Vancouver that was also captured on video. And there's more Bach in store - from Canadian violinist Lara St. John - along with Haydn's Symphony No. 49 from Montreal's Arion Ensemble. Matthew McFarlane has this week's quiz, and we'll offer some advice on Hot Ticket concerts in Canada for the coming week.
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