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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: Patrons, Passions and Performers

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Patrons, Passions and Performers: Episode 2: Apollon Musagete Quartet

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Episode 2: Apollon Musagete Quartet

Patrons, Passions and Performers

Apollon Musagete Quartet

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The Apollon Musagete Quartet in music by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.

The Apollon Musagete Quartet performs at Queen's Hall in Belfast. Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D, Op 11. Shostakovich: String Quartet No 4 in D, Op 83.

Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music celebrates "Patrons, Passions and Performers" - music dedicated to inspirational performers, generous benefactors, respected colleagues or dearly beloved figures to whom composers have offered their art. Recorded in the Great Hall at Queen's University, today's programme features the Apollon Musagète Quartet in performances of works by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich:

Apollon Musagète Quartet - 

Pawel Zalejski (violin)
Bartosz Zachlod (violin)
Piotr Szumiel (viola)
Piotr Skweres (cello)

TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartet no. 1 in D major, op. 11 

SHOSTAKOVICH
String Quartet no. 4 in D major, op. 83.

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Concerts given as part of Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music.

Series of concerts given at the Great Hall in Queen's University as part of Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music

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