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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: East Neuk Festival 2013

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: East Neuk Festival 2013: Episode 1: Tokyo String Quartet and Christian Zacharias

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Episode 1

Episode 1: Tokyo String Quartet and Christian Zacharias

East Neuk Festival 2013

Tokyo String Quartet and Christian Zacharias

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, East Neuk Festival 2013, Tokyo String Quartet and Christian Zacharias

Tokyo String Quartet and Christian Zacharias (piano) in Mozart, Webern and Scarlatti.

Penny Gore with music from the Tokyo String Quartet and Christian Zacharias (piano). Mozart: String Quartet (Hoffmeister). Webern: Quartet in E. Scarlatti: Sonata, Kk 27.

Penny Gore introduces highlights from the East Neuk Festival in Fife which was described last year as one of the 10 best quirky UK festivals. Today's offering features the last European performance by the Tokyo String Quartet as part of their final farewell tour in a career spanning 40 years. Their concert includes music by Mozart and Webern and Christian Zacharias, a regular artist at the Festival performs Scarlatti's keyboard B minor sonata.

Mozart - String Quartet in D major, K 499 'Hoffmeister'
Webern - Quartet in E major (1905)
Scarlatti - Sonata in B minor. Kk 27

Tokyo String Quartet
Christian Zacharias, 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.

Penny Gore presents musical highlights from the 2013 East Neuk Festival in Fife

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring musical highlights from the 2013 East Neuk Festival in Fife

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