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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Lugano Festival 2012

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Lugano Festival 2012: Episode 4

Music: Classical

Lugano Festival 2012

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Lugano Festival 2012, Episode 4

Music from the 2012 Lugano Festival, by Prokofiev, Schnittke and Tchaikovsky.

Music from the 2012 Lugano Festival. Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No 2. Schnittke: Piano Quartet. Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C, arr for piano, Op 48 (Sergio Tiempo, Karin Lechner: piano).

In the final programme of highlights from the 11th Martha Argerich Project at the Lugano Festival, Martha Argerich plays Prokofiev's Second Violin Sonata with young French violinist Renaud Capuçon, and violinst Alissa Margulis leads a performance of Schnittke's Piano Quartet, based on a Scherzo fragment by Mahler. In this all-Russian programme, virtuoso pianists Sergio Tiempo and Karin Lechnier play Tchaikovsky's own arrangement of his Sereande for Strings in C.
Presented by Katie Derham.

Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.94
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Martha Argerich (piano)

Schnittke: Piano Quartet, based on a Scherzo fragment by Mahler
Walter Delahunt (piano)
Alissa Margulis (violin)
Lyda Chen (viola)
Alexander Knyazev (cello)

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C, Op.48, arranged for piano 4 hands
Sergio Tiempo & Karin Lechner (piano 4 hands)


Elizabeth Arno (producer).

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.

Highlights from the 11th Martha Argerich Project at the 2012 Lugano Festival

Katie Derham presents a series of programmes showcasing highlights from the 11th Martha Argerich Project at the 2012 Lugano Festival

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