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Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Fiddlefest 2 ... with strings attached ...

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Fiddlefest 2 ... with strings attached ...: Episode 2

Fiddlefest 2 ... with strings attached ...

Episode 2

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Music from Fiddlefest 2 in Londonderry by Prokofiev and Bartok.

Music from Fiddlefest 2 in Londonderry. Alexandra Soumm (violin), Julien Quentin (piano) and the Brodsky Quartet in Prokofiev's Violin Sonata in D and Bartok's String Quartet No 1.

Sean Rafferty introduces music from Fiddlefest 2 - a chamber music festival celebrating the violin and its repertoire, recorded at Christ Church in Londonderry.

Violinist Alexandra Soumm and pianist Julien Quentin open the programme with Prokofiev's Violin Sonata in D. It began life as a flute sonata but David Oistrakh thought it would make a good violin sonata and he managed to sell the idea to the composer. It is followed by Bartok's String Quartet No 1 performed by the Brodsky Quaret. The work was completed in 1909, when Bartok began his resarches into Hugarian folk music, but the quartet shows little influence of these studies until the finale.

Prokofiev: Sonata in D for violin and piano, Op 94
Alexandra Soumm (violin)
Julien Quentin (piano)

Bartok: String Quartet No 1, Sz 40
Brodsky Quartet:
Daniel Rowland, Ian Belton (violins)
Paul Cassidy (viola)
Jacqueline Thomas (cello).

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Sean Rafferty presents performances from Londonderry's Fiddlefest 2 event

Sean Rafferty presents performances from Londonderry's Fiddlefest 2, an event celebrating music for the violin. The repertoire is for violin and piano as well as for string quartet and string octet

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