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BBC Proms: 2012 Season: Proms Chamber Music

BBC Proms: 2012: Proms Chamber Music: Part 4: PCM 04: Pike, Altstaedt, Levit

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PCM 04: Pike, Altstaedt, Levit

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Jennifer Pike, Nicolas Altstaedt and Igor Levit in chamber music by Debussy and Ravel.

Jennifer Pike (violin), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Igor Levit (piano) perform at Cadogan Hall. Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano; Sonata for cello and piano. Ravel: Piano Trio.

Live from Cadogan Hall, London 

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

Three leading soloists join forces to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Debussy.

French composer Claude Debussy was one of the most forward-looking of early 20th century composers so his return to Classical form in these late Sonatas is one last party-trick from a composer who constantly rebelled and surprised. Ravel's Piano Trio was written in 1914 just as the First World War broke out. Finishing it at break-neck speed so he could enlist, he said he composed it 'with the sureness and lucidity of a madman'. The result is an elegant and virtuosic masterpiece that seems tinged with nostalgia. The performers are three leading young soloists, all of whom are, or have been, BBC New Generation Artists.

Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano
Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano
Ravel: Piano Trio

Jennifer Pike (violin)
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Igor Levit (piano).

BBC Proms: 2012

BBC Proms: 2012: Proms Chamber Music

Proms Chamber Music

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 118th season of the BBC Proms.

Series of concerts by small classical musical ensembles, broadcast from Cadogan Hall

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