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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Llyr Williams

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Llyr Williams: Episode 2: Llyr Williams and Escher Quartet

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Llyr Williams

Episode 2

Episode 2: Llyr Williams and Escher Quartet

Llyr Williams and Escher Quartet

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Llyr Williams, Llyr Williams and Escher Quartet

Llyr Williams in Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8 and Escher Quartet in d'Indy's Quartet No 3

Llyr Williams plays Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata, plus d'Indy's Quartet No 3 in D flat performed by the Escher Quartet.

Continuing this week's series from Wales, Llyr Williams plays an early piano sonata by Beethoven, the only one for which the composer himself coined the nickname and the Escher Quartet give a performance of a rarely heard string quartet by César Franck's pupil, Vincent d'Indy at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

Recorded at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Gregynog Festival 

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor, Op 13 'Pathétique' 
Llyr Williams, piano

d'Indy: Quartet No 3 in D flat major, Op 96 
Escher Quartet.

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Series of performances by pianist Llyr Williams

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