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Morning Performance: Cheltenham Festival 2000

on BBC Radio 3

Chris de Souza introduces the final Morning Performance relay from this year's Cheltenham Festival. The Lindsays conclude the series of late Beethoven quartets and perform music commissioned for them by the BBC from Vic Hoyland.
The Lindsays: Peter Cropper and Ronald Birks (violins), Robin Ireland (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
Hoyland Bagatelles

11.30 Orient Express - a Literary Journey 5: The Made to Order Funeral Oration
By Aziz Nesin, read by Derek Griffiths. A story from Turkey poking fun at those families who seek to use a loved one's death as an opportunity for a bit of social climbing.

11.50 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op 130 (with Grosse Fuge , Op 133, as finale)

(Next concert will be broadcast Sunday 16 July 1pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Vic Hoyland.
Unknown:
Peter Cropper
Violins:
Ronald Birks
Violins:
Robin Ireland
Cello:
Bernard Gregor-Smith
Cello:
Mozart Adagio
Unknown:
Aziz Nesin
Read By:
Derek Griffiths.
Unknown:
Grosse Fuge

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