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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 4

Fiddlefest 2 ... with strings attached ...

Episode 4

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Sean Rafferty presents music from Fiddlefest 2, by Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn.

Sean Rafferty presents music from the Fiddlefest 2 event. Works by Mozart and Schubert and the Brodsky and Badke Quartets in Mendelssohn's Octet in E flat.

Sean Rafferty concludes a series of programmes from Fiddlefest 2, the chamber music festival recorded in 2009 at Christ Church, Londonderry in Northern Ireland. After performances of Mozart's Sonata in G, K301, and Schubert's Quartettsatz, the members of the Brodsky and Badke Quartets come together for the festival finale - a performance of Mendelssohn's Octet for strings. The work was written when the composer was only 16, and it remains the only significant masterpiece for string octet.

Mozart: Violin Sonata in G, K301
Alexandra Soumm (violin)
Julien Quentin (piano)

Schubert: Quartettsatz
Brodsky Quartet

Mendelssohn: Octet for strings in E flat, Op 20
Brodsky Quartet:
Daniel Rowland, Ian Belton (violins)
Paul Cassidy (viola)
Jacqueline Thomas (cello)
Badke Quartet:
Heather Badke, Emma Parker (violins)
Jon Thorne (viola)
Jonathan Byers (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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