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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Festival 2016: Halvorsen, Mozart and Ravel from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival

Halvorsen, Mozart and Ravel from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival

Cheltenham Festival 2016

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Halvorsen, Mozart and Ravel from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival.

Chamber music from 2016's Cheltenham Music Festival, today featuring works by Halvorsen, Mozart and Ravel.

Another chance to hear our Lunchtime Concert series from the Cheltenham Music Festival in 2016, performed by BBC New Generation Artists the Quatuor Van Kuijk, along with the violinist Esther Yoo and cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan. Today's concert features Halvorsen's  Passacaglia with Variations in G minor after Handel, along with the Divertimento in D by Mozart, and Ravel's String Quartet in F major, all performed in the historic setting of the Pittville Pump Room. 

Johan Halvorsen
Passacaglia with Variations in G minor after Handel
Esther Yoo, violin
Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in D K136
Quatuor Van Kuijk:
Nicholas van Kuijk, violin
Sylvain Favre-Bulle, violin 
Grégoire Vecchioni, viola
François Robin, cello

Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major
Quatuor Van Kuijk:
Nicholas van Kuijk, violin
Sylvain Favre-Bulle, violin 
Grégoire Vecchioni, viola
François Robin, cello

Produced by Luke Whitlock.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Festival 2016

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.

Concerts given at the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival.

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