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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

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

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Summer Chamber Music in the Ulster Hall

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Summer Chamber Music in the Ulster Hall: Episode 3: Francois-Frederic Guy

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Episode 3: Francois-Frederic Guy

Summer Chamber Music in the Ulster Hall

Francois-Frederic Guy

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Francois-Frederic Guy (piano) performs music by Liszt and Beethoven.

Francois-Frederic Guy in a piano recital given at the Ulster Hall in Belfast. Liszt: Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses (selection). Beethoven: Piano Sonata (Pathetique).

Summer Chamber Music in the Ulster Hall.

François-Frédéric Guy, piano.

Liszt: from Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude; Hymne de l'enfant au reveil; Funérailles.
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13 (Pathétique).

François-Frédéric Guy was launched on his international career when, in 1999, BBC Radio 3 selected him for their New Generation Artists scheme. 

He begins today's programme with three of the 10 pieces that make up Liszt's Harmonies poétiques et religieuses that were brought together as a cycle between 1845-52. They are quite different from what you might usually expect from Liszt. Inspired by the poetry of Lamartine, these are Liszt's only piano works based on purely religious themes. The pieces were apparently of such significance to the composer that he continued to play them privately long after he retired from the concert stage. 

Particularly renowned for his performances of Beethoven, François-Frédéric Guy concludes today's Lunchtime Concert with Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C minor, known as the Pathétique. It was written in 1798 at a time when Beethoven was beginning to become aware of his encroaching deafness and yet was leading a relatively contented domestic life.

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Series of performances given during the summer of 2011 in the Ulster Hall, Belfast

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