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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: Nicolas Altstaedt, Jose Gallardo

Music: Classical

Nicolas Altstaedt, Jose Gallardo

19/12/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Nicolas Altstaedt, Jose Gallardo

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) plays music by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Boulanger and Piazzolla.

From the Wigmore Hall, London, Nicolas Altstaedt (cello) and Jose Gallardo (piano) perform music by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Boulanger and Astor Piazzolla.

Live from London's Wigmore Hall, Radio 3 New Generation Artist Nicolas Altstaedt, with pianist José Gallardo, plays a colourful and eclectic programme of cello music. He includes a set of variations by Beethoven, the sonata that Prokofiev wrote for Rostropovitch, three little pieces by the French teacher and composer Nadia Boulanger and ends with one of Astor Piazzolla's most uninhibited tango-based works.

Presented by Katie Derham.

BEETHOVEN: 12 Variations on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes' by Handel in G major WoO.45 for cello and piano
PROKOFIEV: Sonata in C major Op.119 for cello and piano
BOULANGER: 3 Pieces for cello and piano
PIAZZOLLA: Le Grand tango for cello and piano

Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
José Gallardo (piano).

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