Cheltenham Festival
Chris de Souza introduces a concert live from the Pittville Pump Room in which two of the most talented young quartets, the Belcea and the Jerusalem, join forces in music by Shostakovich, Mendelssohn and Walton, and are heard individually in works by Webern and Kurtag.
Shostakovich Two Pieces for string octet, Op 11
Webem Slow movement Belcea Quartet Kurtag Officium Breve Jerusalem Quartet
8.15 Twenty Minutes: Burmese Daze In the first of two South East Asian excursions, novelist and broadcaster Christopher Hope visits the "half police-state and paradise" now known as Myanmar.
8.35 Walton, arr M Berkeley Touch Her Soft Lips and Part (Henry V)
Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 See also tomorrow 11am