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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 3

Fiddlefest 2 ... with strings attached ...

Episode 3

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Music from Fiddlefest 2 in Londonderry, by Ravel, Javier Alvarez and Mario Lavista.

Alexandra Soumm (violin), Julien Quentin (piano) and the Brodsky Quartet in music by Ravel, plus Mexican composers Javier Alvarez and Mario Lavista.

Sean Rafferty introduces music from Fiddlefest 2, the chamber music festival recorded in 2009 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

With performances of Ravel's concert showpiece Tzigane and the string quartet which he deidicated to Faure. In between, there are contemporary pieces by two Mexican composers. Javier Alvarez's Metro Chabacono was written in1991 to accompany an installation by sculptor Marcos Limenez, which was displayed in Mexico City's busiest subway station also called Metro Chabacano. Alvarez studied composition with Mario Lavista and his quartet Reflejos de noche which has a whispery, eerie sound should only be performed in low light.

Ravel: Tzigane - Rapsodie de concert 
Alexandra Soumm (violin)
Julien Quentin (piano)

Javier Alvarez: Alvarez Metro Chabacano
Mario Lavista: Reflejos de la Noche
Ravel: String Quartet in F
Brodsky Quartet
Daniel Rowland, Ian Belton (violins)
Paul Cassidy (viola)
Jacqueline Thomas (cello).

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.

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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