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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schwetzingen Festival 2012

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Schwetzingen Festival 2012: Episode 7

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Episode 7

Schwetzingen Festival 2012

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Schwetzingen Festival 2012, Episode 7

From the Schwetzingen Festival 2012: music by Dvorak, Schubert and Faure.

From the Schwetzingen Festival 2012: Emerson Quartet in Dvorak: String Quartet No 12; Cypresses. Andras Schiff in Schubert: Impromptu No 1, D946. Plus Faure: 5 Melodies, Op 58.

Penny Gore presents highlights from this year's Schwetzingen Festival. Today's music includes Dvorak inspired by America in his String Quartet no.12, and Faure inspired by Italy in his 5 Melodies 'De Venise'.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Dvorak: String Quartet no.12 in F, 'American' 
Dvorak: Cypresses
Emerson String Quartet

Schubert: Impromptu no.1 in E flat minor, D.946
Andras Schiff (fortepiano)

Faure: 5 Melodies Op.58 'De Venise'
Joyce DiDonato (soprano)
David Zobel (piano).

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.

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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