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New Generation Artists: Francesco Piemontesi, Elias Quartet

Music: Classical

24/07/2011

Francesco Piemontesi, Elias Quartet

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Francesco Piemontesi (piano) performs Brahms, and the Elias Quartet plays Mendelssohn.

Pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Handel, and the Elias Quartet and Malin Broman (viola) play Mendelssohn's Second Quintet.

Brahms was a big fan of Handel and he based his twenty-five variations (the largest set he wrote) on a theme from a Handel Suite; Francesco Piemontesi is a Swiss-Italian pianist who graduates from Radio 3's illustrious scheme this year. His performance is followed by the UK-based Elias Quartet with a special recording of Mendelssohn's Second String Quintet, written just two years before his death and with intensity to match. They are joined by Malin Broman on viola.

Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Haendel op. 24
Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 87
Elias String Quartet
Malin Broman (viola)

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