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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Festival 2016

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Cheltenham Festival 2016: Episode 3

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Episode 3

Cheltenham Festival 2016

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Cheltenham Festival 2016, Episode 3

Stravinsky's The Firebird and a Beethoven quartet from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival.

From 2016's Cheltenham Festival, Christian Lindberg (trombone), Roland Pontinen (piano) in Stravinsky: The Firebird (excpts). Doric Quartet in Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 59 No 2.

This week's lunchtime concerts come from Cheltenham Music Festival, recorded in the elegant Regency setting of the Pittville Pump Room. In today's highlights, trombonist Christian Lindberg plays a virtuosic arrangement of three movements from Stravinsky's Firebird and the Doric String Quartet perform the second of Beethoven's Opus 59 'Razumovsky' quartets, thought to have been inspired in part by Beethoven gazing up at the stars, "contemplating the harmony of the spheres". 

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

Igor Stravinsky, arr. Lindberg and Pöntinen 
Three Movements from The Firebird
Christian Lindberg, trombone 
Roland Pöntinen, piano 

Ludwig van Beethoven 
String Quartet in E minor, Op.59 No.2 (Razumovsky) 
Doric String Quartet: 
Alex Redington, violin 
Jonathan Stone, violin
Hélène Clément, viola 
John Myerscough, cello.

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Fiona Talkington presents programmes of music from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival

Fiona Talkington presents a series of programmes of music from the 2016 Cheltenham Music Festival, recorded in the elegant Regency setting of the Pittville Pump Room.

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