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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: Piano Festivals in Perth and Glasgow

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Piano Festivals in Perth and Glasgow: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Piano Festivals in Perth and Glasgow

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Music by Brahms and Weir from Perth Piano Sundays and the 2014 Glasgow Piano Festival.

A celebration of the piano from the Glasgow Piano Festival and Perth Sundays. Beethoven and Brahms in unusual piano duet versions and a folk song transformed by Judith Weir.

From the Perth Sundays piano series, Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore tackle the peaks of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge and Brahms's String Sextet No 2 in the composers' own arrangements for four hands at one piano, while at the Glasgow Piano Festival, Alasdair Beatson and the Hebrides Ensemble present Judith Weir's transformation of the folk song Arise! Arise! You Slumbering Sleepers

Brahms: String Sextet No 2 in G major
Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore (piano duet)

Weir: Arise! Arise! You Slumbering Sleepers
Hebrides Ensemble,
Alasdair Beatson (piano).

Beethoven: Grosse Fuge
Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore (piano duet).

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Highlights from concerts given at piano festivals in Perth and Glasgow

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