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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schwetzingen Festival 2012

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schwetzingen Festival 2012: Episode 1

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Schwetzingen Festival 2012

Episode 1

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From 2012's Schwetzingen Festival: Brahms and Marc-Andre Hamelin's Variations on Paganini.

From 2012's Schwetzingen Festival. Jorg Widmann (clarinet), Hagen Quartet in Brahms: Clarinet Quintet, Op 115. Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) in his Variations on a Theme by Paganini.

Louise Fryer presents highlights from this year's Schwetzingen Festival. Today's programme features Brahms' lyrical Clarinet Quintet, and virtuosity in Marc-Andre Hamelin's own Variations on a Theme by Paganini.

Presented by Louise Fryer.

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115
Jorg Widmann (clarinet)
Hagen String Quartet

Marc-Andre Hamelin: Variations on a Theme by Paganini
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano).

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Louise Fryer presents programmes featuring highlights from the 2012 Schwetzingen Festival.

Louise Fryer presents a series of programmes of highlights from the 2012 Schwetzingen Festival

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