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Performance on 3: Aldeburgh Festival 2000

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Chris de Souza introduces the last of the live concerts given by the Borodin String Quartet at this year's festival. They continue their Beethoven and Shostakovich quartet cycle with some of the composers' last and greatest music.

Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Op 132

8.50 Twenty Minutes: A Sound Read
Ivan Hewett is joined by Professor Roy Porter of the Wellcome Institute and composer William Mival to review recently published books on music. This month's edition features a new biography of Schubert by Christopher Gibbs, Critical Entertainments by Charles Rosen and A Brahms Reader by Michael Musgrave.

9.10 Shostakovich String Quartet No 15, Op 144

Contributors

Presenter:
Chris de Souza
Musicians:
Borodin String Quartet
Presenter (Twenty Minutes):
Ivan Hewett
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
Professor Roy Porter
Guest (Twenty Minutes):
William Mival
Source: Radio Times

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