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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Clandeboye Festival 2015

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Clandeboye Festival 2015: Episode 4

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Clandeboye Festival 2015

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Clandeboye Festival 2015, Episode 4

Barry Douglas, Elina Vahala, Ruth Gibson and Andres Diaz perform music by Brahms.

Music by Brahms: Barry Douglas (piano) plays the Scherzo, Op 4. Plus Elina Vahala (violin), Ruth Gibson (viola), Andres Diaz (cello) and Barry Douglas in Piano Quartet, Op 25.

John Toal introduces the last of four recitals from this year's Clandeboye Festival, recorded in the Banqueting Hall of Clandeboye Estate outside Bangor, County Down. Today's concert features pianist Barry Douglas as soloist and ensemble member. 

The programme begins with Brahms's Scherzo, Op. 4 - his earliest surviving composition, written in 1851 when he was only 19 years old.

We round off this week's series with Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25 - a work which is orchestral in its sense of colour, scope of expression and developmental range.

Brahms: Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4
Barry Douglas (piano) 

Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor Op 25
Elina Vähälä (violin); Ruth Gibson (viola); Andrés Díaz (cello); Barry Douglas (piano).

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Recitals given at the Clandeboye Estate in County Down for the 2015 Clandeboye Festival

John Toal presents recitals given at the Clandeboye Estate outside Bangor in County Down as part of the 2015 Clandeboye Festival

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