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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: LSO St Luke's Chopin Piano Series

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: LSO St Luke's Chopin Piano Series: Episode 4: Benjamin Grosvenor

Benjamin Grosvenor

Episode 4

Episode 4: Benjamin Grosvenor

LSO St Luke's Chopin Piano Series

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Jonathan Swain presents an all-Chopin piano recital by Benjamin Grosvenor.

Jonathan Swain presents an all-Chopin piano recital given by Benjamin Grosvenor, contrasting well-known works with little-heard novelties. Includes Scherzos 1 and 2 (in B flat minor).

The acclaimed teenage pianist (and Radio 3 New Generation Artist) Benjamin Grosvenor in the last of this week's all-Chopin recitals from LSO St Luke's. 

As part of Radio 3's celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth, today Benjamin Grosvenor presents a varied programme contrasting some of Chopin's best known and most virtuosic works with some little-heard novelties. 

Presented by Jonathan Swain.

Programme : 

Scherzo No 1 in B minor Op 20 

Nocturne in C sharp minor Op posth 
Nocturne in E minor Op 72 no 1 
Barcarolle in F sharp major Op 60 

Scherzo No 4 in E major Op 54 

Largo in E flat major 
Bourrée in G major 
Bourrée in A major 
Fugue in A minor 
Moderato (Albumblatt) in E major 
Sostenuto in E flat major 
Allegretto in F sharp major 
Galop Marquis in A flat major 

Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor Op 31.

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Katie Derham presents a sequence of all-Chopin piano recitals from LSO St Luke's in London

Katie Derham presents a sequence of all-Chopin piano recitals from LSO St Luke's in London, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Polish composer's birth

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