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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: City of London Festival 2012

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: City of London Festival 2012: Episode 5: Escher String Quartet

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Episode 5: Escher String Quartet

City of London Festival 2012

Escher String Quartet

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From the City of London Festival, the Escher Quartet play Bartok, Zemlinsky and Dvorak.

Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Escher String Quartet play works by Bartok, Zemlinsky and Dvorak at the 2012 City of London Festival.

The fifth of eight concerts featuring Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2012 City of London Festival. In 'A Postcard from America's East Coast', the Escher String Quartet play Bartok's Third Quartet, a somewhat serious take on Yankee Doodle by Anton Zemlinsky, and Dvorak's famous 'American' Quartet, written during his time as Director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York.

Presented by Louise Fryer.


Bartok: String Quartet No 3
Zemlinsky: Yankee Doodle (movement for string quartet)
Dvorak: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 (American)

Escher String Quartet.

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Concerts given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2012 City of London Festival

Series of concerts given by Radio 3 New Generation Artists at the 2012 City of London Festival

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