Tom McKinney presents the Radio 3 Big Chamber Weekend recorded at Saffron Hall in Essex, which brings the composer and virtuoso clarinettist Mark Simpson together with his friends in some of the music he loves best, played alongside his own chamber-music works. Today, he presents a sequence of homages, starting with Schumann's much-loved Märchenerzälungen, Kurtag's Homage to Schumann and Simpson's own Homage to Kurtag. The Navarra String Quartet play Janacek's own homage to the Kreutzer Sonata, the nickname for the String Quartet No.1.

Mark Simpson is a former BBC Young Musician of the Year and Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

Presented by Tom McKinney.

SCHUMANN
Märchenerzälungen (Fairy Tales)
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Adam Newman (viola)
Richard Uttley (piano)

KURTAG
Homage to Schumann
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Adam Newman (viola)
Richard Uttley (piano)

SIMPSON
Homage to Kurtag
Mark Simpson (clarinet)
Adam Newman (viola)
Richard Uttley (piano)

JANACEK
String Quartet No. 1 'The Kreutzer Sonata'
Navarra String Quartet

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