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String Octets

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Three masterworks written while their composers were still in their teens.
Academy of St Martin Chamber Ensemble leader Kenneth Sillito live from the Queen
Elizabeth Hall , London.
Enescu Octet in C. Op 7
8.25 First Love
1909: Vladimir Nabokov 's journey from St Petersburg to Biarritz, and first love on the 'palpitating plage'. Reader Hugh Dickson.
8.45 Shostakovich
Prelude and Scherzo, Op 11 Mendelssohn Octet in E flat, Op 20 (In association with Nuclear Electric)

Contributors

Leader:
Kenneth Sillito
Unknown:
Elizabeth Hall
Unknown:
Vladimir Nabokov
Reader:
Hugh Dickson.
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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