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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Music Festival 2015

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Music Festival 2015: Episode 1

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Cheltenham Music Festival 2015

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From the 2015 Cheltenham Music Festival, music by Schumann and Schubert.

From the 2015 Cheltenham Music Festival, Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) performs Schumann's Lied ohne Ende (Albumblatter). Plus the Armida Quartet in Schubert's String Quartet in G, D887.

This week's lunchtime concert comes from the Cheltenham Music Festival, performed by BBC New Generation Artists the Armida Quartet, and the pianist Pavel Kolesnikov. Today's concert features music for solo piano by Schumann, his Lied ohne Ende from Albumblätter, and Schubert's String Quartet in G major D887, all performed in the historic setting of the Pittville Pump Room.

Schumann: Lied ohne Ende from Albumblätter, Op 124 No 8
Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Schubert: String Quartet in G major, D 887
Armida Quartet: Martin Funda (violin), Johanna Staemmler (violin), Teresa Schwamm (viola), and Peter-Philipp Staemmler (cello)

Produced by Johannah Smith.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Series of performances given at the 2015 Cheltenham Music Festival

Music from the 2015 Cheltenham Music Festival, featuring performances given in the Pittville Pump Room

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