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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Wigmore Hall: Emerson String Quartet

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Wigmore Hall: Emerson String Quartet

14/11/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Wigmore Hall: Emerson String Quartet

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, the Emerson Quartet performs Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, the Emerson Quartet perform a Bach fugue arranged by Mozart, Mozart's Adagio and Fugue, K546, and Beethoven's Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131.

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, one of today's most distinguished string quartets, the Emerson Quartet, perform a fugue from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in an arrangement by Mozart, Mozart's own Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546, and one of Beethoven's great late quartets, the C sharp minor Op. 131.
Presented by Fiona Talkington

Full programme:
Bach arranged Mozart: Fugue in E major from The Well-tempered Clavier K405
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546
Beethoven: String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131

Emerson String Quartet.

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