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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schwetzingen Festival 2011

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schwetzingen Festival 2011: Episode 4: Hagen Quartet

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Episode 4: Hagen Quartet

Schwetzingen Festival 2011

Hagen Quartet

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The Hagen Quartet performs music by Bach and Beethoven at the Schwetzingen Festival.

Concert given by the Hagen Quartet. Bach: Contrapunctus 1-4 (The Art of Fugue). Beethoven: String Quartet No 13 in B flat, Op 130; String Quartet in B flat, Op 133 (Grosse Fuge).

The fouth of nine Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts recorded at the 2011 Schwetzingen Festival.

Every Summer the 250-year-old castle of Schwetzingen, just outside the German city of Heidelberg, plays host to a music festival. The stars of today and, hopefully, tomorrow take part - as they have done since the festival began in 1952. 
Today's concert features the Hagen Quartet in a typically thoughtful pairing. The quartet plays one of Beethoven's very last works with its alternative (and fiendishly difficult) final movement, the so-called 'Giant Fugue'. They precede late Beethoven with late music by Bach - part of his exploration of the idea of the fugue. 

Hagen Quartet

BACH: Contrapunctus 1-4 from 'The Art of Fugue' BWV 1080
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No 13 in B flat Op 130; String Quartet in B flat Op 133 ('Grosse Fuge').

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Programmes featuring concert highlights from the 2011 Schwetzingen Festival in Germany

Programmes featuring concert highlights from the 2011 Schwetzingen Festival, held near the German city of Heidelberg

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