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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Aldeburgh Festival 2015

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Aldeburgh Festival 2015: Episode 2

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Aldeburgh Festival 2015

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Aldeburgh Festival 2015, Episode 2

From Snape Maltings, performances of music by Debussy, Edward Nesbit, Ravel and Ades.

With Louis Lortie (piano) performing music by Debussy, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra playing works by Edward Nesbit and Ravel, and the Doric String Quartet in Ades.

Tom Redmond continues this week's series of Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts recorded at the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival.

Louis Lortie plays a selection of Debussy Preludes, the Doric Quartet perform Thomas Ades's 2010 piece The Four Quarters, and as part of their three concert residency at the festival soloists from the dynamic Mahler Chamber Orchestra play Ravel's Introduction and Allegro and Edward Nesbit's Concerto - a two movement exploration of the concerto form.

Debussy: Voiles [Preludes, Book 1]
Debussy: Des pas dans la neige [Preludes, Book 1]
Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie [Preludes, Book 1]
Louis Lortie (piano)

Edward Nesbit: Concerto 
Tim Summers (violin)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra Soloists conducted by Geoffrey Paterson

Ravel: Introduction and Allegro 
Mahler Chamber Orchestra Soloists

Adès: The Four Quarters 
Doric String Quartet.

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Music performed at Snape Maltings during the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival

Tom Redmond introduces a series of programmes of music performed at Snape Maltings during the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival

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