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Two Strings to a Bow
Gordon Stewart explores two composers from different centuries. Bach and Shostakovich. For
Shostakovich, Bach was a god and the supreme master craftsman. Tatiana Nikolaieva remembers
Shostakovich and plays two of the Preludes and Fugues for piano from the set inspired by Bach's Well-
Tempered Clavier, and Radu Lupu and the Gabrieli Quartet perform the Piano Quintet. Bach's supreme mastery of counterpoint is celebrated in music for solo violin, for organ and for orchestra, performed by Orrea Pernel , Geraint Jones and George Malcolm with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

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Gordon Stewart
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Tatiana Nikolaieva
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Radu Lupu
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Orrea Pernel
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Geraint Jones
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George Malcolm
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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