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

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Wigmore Hall: Pavel Haas Quartet

Music: Classical

Wigmore Hall: Pavel Haas Quartet

09/07/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Wigmore Hall: Pavel Haas Quartet

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, the Pavel Haas Quartet play works by Janacek and Smetana

Live from Wigmore Hall, the Pavel Haas Quartet perform Janacek's Second Quartet and Smetana's First Quartet.

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, the Pavel Haas Quartet perform two highly personal and autobiographical works by Czech composers: Janacek's Second Quartet (Intimate Letters) reflects on his passionate but one-sided relationship with a younger woman; and Smetana's First Quartet (From My Life) details the emotional trauma of encroaching deafness. Presented by Fiona Talkington.

FULL PROGRAMME
Janacek: String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters" 
Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor "From My Life"

Pavel Haas Quartet.

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