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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Wigmore Hall: Escher Quartet

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Wigmore Hall: Escher Quartet

24/06/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Wigmore Hall: Escher Quartet

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, the Escher String Quartet plays Prokofiev and Ravel.

Live from the Wigmore Hall in London, former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Escher String Quartet perform Prokofiev's Second Quartet and the String Quartet by Ravel.

Live from Wigmore Hall in London, former Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Escher String Quartet, from the USA perform Prokofiev's Second Quartet - composed during his evacuation to the Kabarda region of Russia during the Second World War, and based almost entirely on local folk-song material - and the ever-popular String Quartet by Ravel.

Introduced by Katie Derham

Escher String Quartet

Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 92
Ravel: String Quartet in F.

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