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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Belfast Music Society International Festival 2015

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Belfast Music Society International Festival 2015: Episode 1

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Belfast Music Society International Festival 2015

Episode 1

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Suk, Bacewicz and Schubert from the 2015 Belfast Music Society Chamber Music Festival.

With the Kungsbacka Piano Trio performing Suk's Elegie, the Royal String Quartet in Bacewicz's String Quartet No 4 and Alexander Melnikov (piano) in Schubert's Wanderer-Fantasie.

The first of four programmes in this week's series of lunchtime concerts from Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music, recorded in the Great Hall at Queen's University in Belfast. The Kungsbacka Piano Trio perform Suk's Elegie (subtitled Under the Impression of Zeyer's Vyšehrad) and based on an 1880 poem by Julius Zeyer. The Royal String Quartet perform Polish composer Bacewicz's Fourth Quartet. Schubert's Wanderer Fantasie, performed by pianist Alexander Melnikov, completes the programme.

Kungsbacka Piano Trio
Suk-Elegie Op. 23

Royal String Quartet
Bacewicz- String Quartet No. 4

Melnikov
Schubert- Wanderer Fantasie Op. 15, (D.760).

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Music performed at Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music 2015

Katie Derham introduces live music performed in the Great Hall at Queen's University, Belfast, as part of Belfast Music Society's International Festival of Chamber Music 2015

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