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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano: Episode 2: Stile Antico live at Wigmore Hall

Mark Padmore, James Baillieu, Heath Quartet - Tippett

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Episode 2: Stile Antico live at Wigmore Hall

Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano

Stile Antico live at Wigmore Hall

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano, Stile Antico live at Wigmore Hall

Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander in Beethoven, including Cello Sonata, Op 102 No 1.

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) and Alexander Melnikov (piano) perform Beethoven, including Twelve Variations on Ein Madchen oder Weibchen from Mozart's Die Zauberflote, Op 66.

Live from Wigmore Hall, London

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Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) and Alexander Melnikov (piano) continue their Beethoven cycle from Wigmore Hall. 

Beethoven: 12 Variations in F on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen'
from Mozart's 'Die Zauberflote' (op.66)
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in C (op.102, no 1)

8.10 Interval Music: as an upbeat to the second half of tonight's concert, a later 19th-century composer's take on Handel - Johannes Brahms' Variations and Fugue, composed as a birthday present for Clara Schumann in 1861, and often described as the greatest variation set since Beethoven's own Diabelli Variations of forty years earlier.

8.15 
Beethoven: 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel's Judas Maccabeus (WoO.4)
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in D (op.102, no 2)

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Alexander Melnikov (piano) 

Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov continue their exploration of Beethoven's works for cello and piano with the two sonatas composed in 1815 for the Silesian cello virtuoso Joseph Linke. Completing the programme, two sets of variations composed in 1796 - on themes from Handel's oratorio 'Judas Maccabeus', and from Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute'.

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Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov perform music by Beethoven for cello and piano

From the Wigmore Hall in London, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov feature in recitals of Beethoven's complete sonatas and variations for cello and piano

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